Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history.

Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.

I do my best to love everybody...I'm hard put, sometimes- baby, its never an insult o be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing.

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

I have no animosity against any living soul.

You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

All poetry is experimental poetry.