God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.

If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

I do my best; I put out things I believe in and if you don't like it then pass on to something else.

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.