When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.

Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.

If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming.

The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.

It's almost impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends.

We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.