Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

When God’s putting His finger on the part of your life that’s not working, He’s pointing to your next miracle.

Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.

Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.

The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.