It's helpful to remember that God doesn't belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around.

Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.

If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

We need to be the church that serves and loves people now, today, exactly where they are. Until then, we are simply managing decline.

Your message is only as loud as the actions that accompany it. Live your message and it will be heard loud and clear.

When listeners become leaders, the world changes.

Evangelism is more about being than being perfect.

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

Don't be afraid to be exactly as awesome as you were created to be.

Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.

We didn't love freedom enough.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

So I’ve seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favorite seed and be too flustered to tell her what it was.

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.