True visionaries are never lukewarm.

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.

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.

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

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.

Every day is an adventure, or it's just some thing you do. It's your choice.

Trust God, He will care for your every need.

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?