Moses, you see, had walked with God long enough to know that even though the Lord's directions might seem foolish, he wasn't to question them.

When he has to risk everything on his leap, and in the spiritual domain Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold by common sense and leap into what He says... Trust entirely in God, and when He brings you to the venture, see that you take it. We act like pagans in a crisis, only one out of a crowd is daring enough to bank his faith in the character of God.

When God's in it ... it flows. When the flesh is in it ... it's forced.

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.

Most of us learn to trust, not because we're noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don't have any other choice.

I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.