Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.