Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

Going to the mountains is going home.

If Messi is the best in the world, it's only because Cristiano is from another planet.

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.