A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.

We need to stop making what people did to us bigger than what Jesus did for us.

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

Jesus didn't come to make us safe. He came to make us dangerous to the kingdom of darkness.

Christian life isn’t a one-person race. It’s a relay. You are not alone; you’re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.

Don't allow any set back to become bigger than your come back

When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says.

We have so many Christians who want to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.

Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

I could stay here forever interrupting our talking with kissing, interrupting our kissing with talking.

Life is a re-discovery.

The body I had at 21, God gave me. The body I have at 31, is one I worked for.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

We know violence isn’t the answer. When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.