Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

When God’s putting His finger on the part of your life that’s not working, He’s pointing to your next miracle.

Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.

Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.

The problem is not our situation but our perception of our situation

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.

The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they just keep pestering me about getting paid.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.