“A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.”

Living in regret will become your biggest regret.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It’s sad when it’s not.

My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

If you don’t live by the praise of men you won’t die by their criticism.

Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

We don’t believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people’s lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, ‘on earth as it is in Heaven.’

Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it.

After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.

Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

You can watch the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Eckhart Tolle or any number of other masters. Their teachings are available and we must celebrate that.

Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.