The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.

Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.

Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.

Support can come from many, but growth is only achieved by the individual.

I'm a Blackmoore, Felicity. I get what I want.

We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature.

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.