“Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.”

Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

I’ve talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don’t really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don’t need a solution. They need a new direction.

My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.

Learning never takes place while you’re talking.

Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

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.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.

The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early ’60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.

I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.

You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.