Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.

Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable