The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

Of course, none of this can happen for us until we give our lives back to God. We cannot know the joy or the life or the freedom of heart I've described until we surrender our lives to Jesus and surrender them totally... We turn, and give ourselves body, soul, and spirit back to God, asking him to cleanse our hearts and make them new. And he does. He gives us a new heart. And he comes to dwell there, in our hearts.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.