I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

I have never seen as far, than those times I have looked through someone else's perspective.

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

Pride is the archenemy of ministry.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

Vancouver is dope, everybody got across the border today.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.