If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

All that matters is, how big do you want to dream, and how hard do you want to work?

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.