Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]