Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.

Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.