People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.