When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

Social Networking should never replace face-to-face time.

Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other. Like

Partners are meant to have a priestly role in each other's lives. They are meant to help each other access the highest parts within themselves.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.

Part of being a Christian is recognizing that sin deceives us, and we need other believers to help us see the things we cannot see about ourselves. Joining a church, I've often said, is like throwing paint on the invisible man. New sins become visible in the course of our discipling relationships.

Ask your friends what God has been teaching you about himself. Small groups can also be useful for facilitating these kinds of relationships.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'.

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.