Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

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.

You can’t excel in everything but you can be exceptional in a few things, so why not choose your life’s focus?

Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression.

Being brave means you create the world you want to live in.

The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.

No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

What is the pattern of change?

It is not what you do. It is that you do.

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