We need to be the church that serves and loves people now, today, exactly where they are. Until then, we are simply managing decline.

Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.

If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

Your message is only as loud as the actions that accompany it. Live your message and it will be heard loud and clear.

It's helpful to remember that God doesn't belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around.

When listeners become leaders, the world changes.

Evangelism is more about being than being perfect.

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

Don't be afraid to be exactly as awesome as you were created to be.

Society was created not by men but by women

Love is a beautiful in all it's forms.Love is the light that ignites by soul.

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

Anything we put on screen has gone through massive changes. That's always part of the process.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.