Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.
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.
The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.
A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.
First open your heart, then open your Bible.
Relationships are always worth restoring.
I forgive. First, because I’ve been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I’m going to need more forgiveness in the future. So we don’t forgive for their benefit. We actually forgive for ours.
When you get to heaven God won’t ask you why you weren’t more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren’t more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.