“What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.”

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

The church is in the hope business.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

Convention is the ruler of all.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

If I feel like I’ve done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.