The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.