The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

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.

I have a terrific headache.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don’t know how I got there.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.