One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

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.

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.

The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.

You have a great potential. Explore your special skills.

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.