“You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.”

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.

You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.

I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can’t even begin to understand.

Unless this is firmly realized we cannot understand what saintly association means, we cannot understand what the shelter of a spiritual master means, we cannot understand that we are dependent and he is our maintainer.

They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal. But the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent development.

Similarly, someone with lots of skill but a weak network won’t realize his or her fullest potential. So, you need both.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.

Me as a person, I’m not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don’t even know what to say. I’m not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.

But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.

Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.