To feel wonder in the face of beauty is to be grandly astonished. A person entranced by wonder is pulled out of the normal voice-in-your-head self-absorption and finds herself awed by something greater than herself.

If you dismiss the word of God’ s command, you will not receive his word of grace. How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?

Invite others into your home.

The whole man must make the decision before the heart can know any real satisfaction. God wants us all, and He will not rest till He gets us all.

Don’t be a reformer. Put a little more “live and let live” into your philosophy. Most people intensely dislike being told “you’re wrong.” You have a right to your own opinion, but sometimes it’s better to keep it to yourself.

Stay focused on your True North, don't stray from the path

Our accomplishments are interdependent. Although we look back in history and tend to say that one particular person “invented” or “discovered” a particular thing, the reality is that most great achievements were not made in a vacuum.

Your current way of work took decades to entrench. It’s going to take time to change actions and thought patterns until they become new habits and, eventually, your new culture.

Our failures to update from interacting with reality spring primarily from three things: not having the right perspective or vantage point, ego-induced denial, and distance from the consequences of our decisions.

Christian meditation, very simply, is the ability to hear God’s voice and obey his word.