Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

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.

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.