Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That's good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.

We rise up every morning and go to bed in the night by grace.

Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Maybe love isn’t supposed to be comfortable. Maybe love is just supposed to be worth it.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.