There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we do in our hearts; we release someone from a debt that they owe us. We write off the person’s debt, and she no longer owes us. We no longer condemn her. She is clean. Only one party is needed for forgiveness: me. The person who owes me a debt does not have to ask my forgiveness. It is a work of grace in my heart.

A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.

Being right can never compete with doing well.

We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we're going to need the next day.

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.