I wasn't a bad person who needed to become good...I was DEAD and needed to be brought to life! (Ephesians 2:1-10)

Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.

If you don't let your past die, then it won't let you live. Period.

It’s ok to not be ok, but it’s not ok to stay that way.

The ISIS situation is not just “their problem to deal with in the Middle East,” it’s OUR PROBLEM because it involves people Jesus died for.

Worship does not become worship until it changes the way we live

Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender.

When a team feels like a family, they will go all out to love and serve one another.

God has called each one of us to embrace life, not merely to endure it.

If you're not dead, God's not done.

Thankfulness eradicates entitlement.

We should never let another person get under our skin to the point that we feel hate for them

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.