Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.