God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.

The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So you may be a Christian and say "my morality is based on the Bible." But if it doesn't line up with the way they think it should line up, now you got a problem with them. And then you can say, "I'm more in line with the Bible," but you don't care about the Bible, so they are like 'why are you imposing these difficult rules on me? I don't even believe in that.' So you just have an interesting and sticky situation.

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

When I moved into one of the worst inner-cities in America to do missionary work I had to do risk assessment, and It was a risk. My family could have been in danger, house could get robbed at any minute but I count it all as nothing compared to knowing Jesus it was all worth it at the end of the day.