Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

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.

Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way."It's three thirty in the morning.""Okay. Want coffee?

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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.

There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

True happiness springs from moderation.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.