For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.

Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.

In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.

Do not surrender your dreams based on the seasonality, chase them until they become a reality.

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good.