Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer’s sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I’m banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.
Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.
The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time.
The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.
How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.
A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.
How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.
The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
I refused to let go of what I had.
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
The Christian faith grew through story – not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.
People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
When you begin to create the life of your dreams – or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you – you take responsibility to prepare for the future.