Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

Leaders fix things that are broken.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

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.