I must not just live my life; I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

What a stunning vocation for the church, to stand free and hope-filled in a world gone fearful–and to think, imagine, dream, vision a future that God will yet enact.

In the quest to know God, may we do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

When I die, God isn’t going to ask me 'Did I create the Earth in six days or five days?' but 'What did you do with what I gave you?'

The best use of life is to invest it in something which will outlast life.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never.'

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Sometimes it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams—assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.