Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

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

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.