It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
You’re not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.
The history of God’s people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.
To live outside of God’s will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.
When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
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.