Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

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.

The rottenness comes from within.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.