In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.