The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.