Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

You'll never come second by putting God first.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

Love is a very compelling argument.

Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!

I'm blessed when someone who I loved and trusted dropped me off, because I have a good choice to think and great lesson to learn

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

I'm keeping an open mind as always, because that's what you have to do.

I don't really care if my clothes are wrinkled or there's a stain on my shirt. Going out on the road, your clothes are dirty.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.

Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain you caused them is that same pain you feel now.

True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger to experience our infinite, unbounded Self.

Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.