Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails.

I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.

The one who truly sacrifices the most is usually the one who talks about it the least

While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly.

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.

Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves.

If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind.

Motivation gets you going Inspiration keeps you going.

Execution is something, but timing is everything.

Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

If you want to have more, you have to become more.

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.