“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.”

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.

You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.

I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

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.

Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.