God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.

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.

The two old men were as still as the stone bench on which they sat, as though their lengthy communion with the element had turned them into statues.

I miss that feeling of connection.Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.

A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

When in doubt, shoot the wizard.