Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!
Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.
Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
Let your broken heart create an open heart.
If you don’t know how to do it, get around someone else who does.
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.
Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.
Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven’t dealt with the root cause.
Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.
Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.
Never confuse activity with productivity.
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life’s purpose: Ask God.
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.