Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

A church without the broken is a broken church.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

What we cannot bear removes us from life

What is the scent of water?""Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.

The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.

You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge. I'm not trying to be a challenge. It's one of the things that makes you one.

It’s a trinity ring. Pink for love, yellow for fidelity and white for friendship. I liked the symbolism of three—you, me and baby-to-be.

Actually, " said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.