What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'
Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.
Most believers aren't in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They're facing a danger that's far greater: wasting them.
God cannot bless who you pretend to be
We thank Him for everything before we ask Him for anything!
The death of contentment is comparison.
Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.
I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.