He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

When God’s putting His finger on the part of your life that’s not working, He’s pointing to your next miracle.

Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.

Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.

The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation

It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

I don't want to die while I still have beautiful reasons to die for.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

America is becoming a drug infested nation. Drugs are becoming cheaper than candy bars. We are not going to let it happen any longer.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.