The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

We don't like to kill our unborn

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean?

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.