“Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.”

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.

I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.

This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.

But it’s a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.” -Damien

But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.

I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.

The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

Thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.

I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor.