Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.