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.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.