What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.