Our conduct will never change God's character.

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.

Self worth comes from loving yourself and not from what others may think of you.

You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about, " Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll!

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves for money-- Come, journey the way with me.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.