“Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment”

There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Our conduct will never change God’s character.

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to listen to your music.

Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.

You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.

Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.