God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

Being consumed by what people think of you is the fastest way to forget what God thinks of you.

Stop rushing. Slow down and enjoy the beauty of life.

Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

It was any wonder how a wave could withstand such a look from eyes like that and continue to build towards him. His eyes were her ocean in those brief seconds.

I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.