Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

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.

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.

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.