The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.

True visionaries are never lukewarm.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.

You are sweet to be so concerned over my love life, but I’ve decided only to date guys who have bigger swords than me.

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.