“If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.”

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.

Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!

It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we’re going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we’re going to do this together.

The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.