And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.
There is no secret formula--only a life committed to a close walk with God.
Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.
We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.
When you rest, realize it is not simply ceasing from activity…it is a gift from God.
If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.
I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it. ’ – Book 3, Chapter 16