We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value system of Heaven as we move about in history.

There was no question but what he had just experienced came from beyond him—a sign of his transformation, and certainly the wonder of it all. Love so pure, so intense, burned away all he had been. No longer was he the second son, the princeling who would never make his rightful claim, the man of thwarted ambitions, the lonely officer trapped in a post and a land that hated him and all that he stood for. None of this mattered. Not in the face of this love.

His revolution is about—one that changes a person to be able to do something even that impossible." "Do the others... do they believe as you do?" "Oh yes. The new kingdom will be one of restoration. Of peace. We will no longer have need for instruments of war.

I believe the Lord performed this fearsome sign so we would clearly understand that choices must be made. Either we are fully with him, or we are with the world. We will soon be forced to declare our allegiance, and in doing so, we must accept that the world may then cast us out.

That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.

When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.