Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.

The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

We've got to build scale. We're going to hire the best people, build the best systems, and find solutions.