How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When he's not, you worry.

Most conflict is rooted in unmet needs. Some of these needs can only be met by God. When you expect anyone — a friend, spouse, boss, or family member — to meet a need that only God can fulfill, you are setting yourself up for disappointment and bitterness. No one can meet all of your needs except God.

When you committed your life to Christ, he moved into the center; but you must keep him there through worship.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Peter Drucker says, "Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

For Jesus, the question wasn't, "How do I get into heaven?" but "How do I bring heaven here?

At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be.

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17

It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into? If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the one thing could.

our Lord satisfied the stomach before satisfying the eye, but the imagination acts in the reverse fashion

Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.