God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life.

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

A born terror, a rebel without a pause... Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?