A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

I understand that what I am to do is to be a bridge between the people who would never set foot in a church in their entire lives and people who would like to get them there. So I write books that Christians can give to their non-Christian friends that they will actually read.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby or this three hours of sitting under the pier and reading comic books or worrying about what you're doing ... what value do you have? Can you read? There are people out there who can't read - go read to them.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.