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.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

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.

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

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 frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’