You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

Your past must die for your future to live.

God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Our moral and cultural traditions have not kept pace with our economic possibilities. We try to match new demands with a spiritual life not designed for them.

you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Scripture really seems to be getting at something here, something about orienting our lives around becoming lifelong learners of Jesus. It is liberating to think that, with God's Spirit, over time, we can learn the ways of Jesus, doing the things that he did while becoming the same type of person. It doesn't happen overnight, and the expectation of Scripture isn't that it happens overnight

It is liberating to think that, with God's Spirit, over time, we can learn the ways of Jesus, doing the things that he did while becoming the same type of person. It doesn't happen overnight, and the expectation of Scripture isn't that it happens overnight.