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.

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.

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.

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

I'm my own person, and in that I'm unique. Pain, anguish, those are all just part of the experience. The more you go through, the stronger you become.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.