Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."

I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.