Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.

To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar

Awake my great spirit.

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Opportunity to help others is the opportunity to help yourself in disguise

I still consider Bill Clinton a friend and Donald Trump a friend. Some day in the future, President Clinton could be a big asset to President Trump in a lot of his outreach.

An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution of the individual.

I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today. It reminds me that the Almighty God is a God to everybody, every person.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.