It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in angry prisons, where only the fit survive, but in the womb of a mother who is being told that if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.