If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.