“Whatever’s happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don’t treat it like it’s the whole story. Keep writing the story.”

Diligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it.

The business of church is ultimately people. You’re trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we’re going to need the next day.

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

Dating is primarily a numbers game. People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That’s just the way it is.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature’s way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far – reason.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

We expressed our readiness to join the US-led, international coalition against Daesh with special forces.