The smile of God is the goal of your life.
In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
God’s love is like an ocean; you can see its beginning, but not its end.
Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.
God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don’t do enough.
If someone broke your heart it doesn’t mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.
God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.
Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.
Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.
When God is at the center of your life, you worship, when He’s not, you worry.
Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.
If you aren’t serving, you’re just existing, because life is meant for ministry.
Most of the time, it’s your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.
We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God’s purposes by ourselves.