The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

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.

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

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.

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

Dream big, dare greatly and shine brightly.

Avoid organizing investment team into silos.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.