God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.

It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.

Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.

Lack of world vision in any Christian produces a 'pea-sized Christianity'.

One is not old until Dreams become Regrets.

World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

I would rather be a babysitter than a nursemaid

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.

I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.