“Humility is not a character trait to develop, it’s the natural by-product of being with Jesus.”

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn’t call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.

Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God’s will.

God wants to do immeasurably more in & through your life than you could ask.

God is huge! He is ginormous! He is greater than every thought we have ever had of Him.

Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.

Worship is when we give God His breath back.

Jesus doesn’t just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.

There’s no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus – to that degree I can channel God’s life to others.

Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.

God’s purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.

The Father doesn’t give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it’s the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure.

But all development programs of the United States and the European countries unfortunately exclude the private sector, which could make investments based on profitability.

Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.