What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time? How would I feel about my life if I knew what was ultimately important for me? Would a written statement of my life's purpose be valuable to me? Would it affect the way I spend my time and energy? How would a weekly reconnection to such a statement affect the things I choose to do during the week?

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

In everything, love simplicity.

Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.

Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it's a place for those who love God.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST

Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

We can decide to live in response to the abundance of God and not under the dictatorship of our own poor needs.

The time and intelligence that our ancestors spent on understanding the sovereignty revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are directed by our contemporaries in affirming and validating the sovereignty of our needs, wants, and feelings.

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

If we don't know where we are going, any road will get us there. But if we have a destination - in this case a life lived to the glory of God - there is a well-marked way, the Jesus-revealed Way. Spiritual theology is the attention that we give to the details of living life on this way. It is a protest against theology depersonalized into information about God; it is a protest against theology functionalized into a program of strategic planning for God.