“Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn’t have, than the Holy Spirit they did.”

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

Leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows.

The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn’t done. If you can’t see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

People follow courage, not titles.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn’t said.

We all remember things, it’s what we remember that determines how we live.

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.

That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church.

When the church is in mission, it is the true church.