If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

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

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.