“Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.”

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.

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed – they died for what they claim to have seen.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you

Patience is not the ability to wait. It is, how we wait; an attitude so unruffled, that none can tell if we’re waiting or not.

We have the ability to find value in anything, but just because something has value doesn’t mean it has to be important to us.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.