To read and to not have been changed in the reading is to have picked up a book without it ever having picked you up.

I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.

God is not interested in parts of you, for having a part will never change the whole.

When you change you are illustrating the fact that it can be done. And what people need today are illustrations.

It is in taking a great thought and wrapping the entirety of it in a handful of simple words that the rouge defenses of the heart are breeched and the soul falls to the light.

If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the life of another human being. And how can that experience do anything less than drive me to try and make the world smile.

When I find a man sold out to God, I have found a rare thing. And I have discovered that God is in the business of creating rare things, of which I someday hope to be one so that I might help you become one as well.

When life is about to do something great, it often sneaks up on us in order that the element of surprise might enhance every part of what it’s about to do.

Prayer is never the ‘last resort.’ Rather, it is always the ‘first response.’ For if I begin with prayer, there will never be a last resort.