“Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.”

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don’t run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what’s right and the courage to do what’s right-even when it’s hard.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

Actions don’t only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.

Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity – this is the ultimate act of human courage.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

It’s only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

There comes a time in the lives of those destined for greatness when we must stand before the mirror of meaning and ask: Why, having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.