Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.

You'll never come second by putting God first.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

Love is a very compelling argument.

Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

Let your heart be your eye.

always be positive, don't depend on others

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter