To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.