“The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.”

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.

It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.