Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

Time is a great teacher, but Cosmic Ordering is a great provider.

Sometimes it's good to start over

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.