There’s nothing in your life you can’t learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.
Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!
During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God’s responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.
You may have done some really nifty things in life, but if you think they’re going to get you into Heaven, forget it. The only way any of us are going to get in is by receiving God’s gift of grace, which is available to every person.
The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.
Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.
Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.
The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don’t set the vision, you’re not the leader.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you’re reacting, not acting. I’d rather shape the culture.
Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.
I’m not a policymaker, I’m not a pundit. In fact, I don’t have any interest in it. It’s not on my agenda.
Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.
God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.
Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.
Will we fulfill God’s purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don’t know how to quit. They just keep on ‘keepin’ on’.
Everybody wants confidence but you don’t find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.