“Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.”

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .

A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.

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.

You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.

If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?

The program for this evening is not new. You’ve seen this entertainment through and through.

I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.

I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.

There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.