Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

Sports provide us with dangerous metaphors. A sporting contest is a contest: a game of winners and losers.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Never forget that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God.

The exacting call of Jesus has no room for good-byes; good-byes, as we often use them, are pagan, not Christian, because they divert us from the call. Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

Consecration is the act of continually separating myself from everything except that which God has appointed me to do. It is not a one-time experience, but an ongoing process.

The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God's highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.