True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility…Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don’t know.

Following Jesus is a verb.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can’t just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

Worship is forgetting about what’s wrong with you and remembering what’s right with God.

…if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

We don’t see the world as it is; we see the world as we are…if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful...

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

…your life is your sermon…Are you a good translation?

…love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical

Self-consciousness isn’t just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Anytime I’m not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I’m wasting my time. [Mark’s brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]

Uniqueness isn’t a virtue. It’s a responsibility.

…if you’re walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they’ll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

Whatever you don’t turn into praise turns into pride.

Everybody wants a miracle; we just don’t want to be in a situation where we need one. You can’t have one without the other. Sometimes what we perceive as our problem is really God setting...

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

…we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God’s voice…living with more noise means we...

I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time… One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I’ve prayed this prayer thousands of times,...

What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

…success is when those who know you best respect you most.

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness…There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person….Our fundamental problem is that...

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us...

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don’t have to fear anyone or anything else.

Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help...

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don’t like in ourselves.

As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no...

…each of us has an explanatory style… And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a...

Embrace relational uncertainty. It’s called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It’s called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It’s called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It’s called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It’s called revelation.

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

…today is the first day and last day of your life…try to make every day a masterpiece.

You don’t have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn’t carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so...

As Edison is credited with saying, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” We all want to be successful, but most of us aren’t willing to...

…we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

If you really want to get good at anything, you’ve got to work at it for ten thousand hours.