God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

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.

And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.

A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.