I want to be a painter." I said this with conviction. "Wha-a-t?" I can never forget the indescribably crafty shadow that passed over Flatfish’s face as he laughed at me, his neck drawn in.

The key is in creating clear expectations up front, and family “win-win agreements” can help you do this.

College was a time of self-discovery and learning to think critically, and we need to go back to that.

We can have the conversations needed to create the results we say we want in our lives, or we can have all of our reasons why we can’t have those conversations. But we can’t have both. Reasons or results. We get to choose.

For him, one essential symptom of the regenerate life is a permanent and permanently horrified perception of one’s natural and (it seems) unalterable corruption.

Teach managers formally what the leadership standard is, and set the expectation that they will need to adjust their behaviors to meet it.

Foundation of Credibility: Honest, Forward-looking, Competent, Inspiring

You fail because you do not accept the strength of God. God alone can work out His will in you.

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

I’m sure I’m better than Horiki at cartoons if nothing else." These clownish words of deceit were taken more seriously than the truth.