You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

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.

How we make people feel shapes how they feel about us.

One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory.

My career is just kind of crazy.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die. - Ty from Stolen

He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.