Great dreams require great courage.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

when theres a will theres a way

It doesn't take much to make me happy.

I have to accept everything... I will be back strong.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.