Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.

COMMUNICATION: If I had to pick a first rule of communication-the one practice above all others that opens the door to connecting with others-it would be to look for common ground. Too often people see communication as the process of transmitting massive amounts of information to other people. But that's the wrong picture. Communication is a journey. The more that people have in common, the better the chance that they can take that journey together.

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.