“We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.”

Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

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

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.

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.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

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

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

So grand yet so small, so important yet so irrelevant, so beautiful yet so shallow, must thee live in illusion or does real life leave too much of a confusion?

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.