You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.

Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.

The truth is we all get tired, we all get weary. In fact, if you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small. If you never feel like quitting, then you need to set some larger goals. When that pressure comes to get discouraged and to think about how you can’t take it anymore, that is completely normal. Every person feels that way at times.

Take the limits off of yourself. You will never rise higher than your thinking. Create a great vision for your life.