Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which appeal to the mind, but often have difficulty in experiencing the Holy Spirit. Others coming from the New Age movement find that rational and historical explanations leave them cold, but at the weekend away they are on more familiar territory in experiencing the Holy Spirit

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.

There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.

I'm a Christian. I'm committed to Jesus Christ and I want people to know about Christ, because it's the most wonderful thing. People can say, 'I'll try and give up drugs,' or 'I'll try and live a better life,' but actually, if you're trapped in that lifestyle, you need, I think, some supernatural power to get you out of it. It's not easy to get out of the kind of lifestyles those people are in where all your family are criminals and all your friends are criminals - that is not an easy break to make, and it is a hard thing for a lot of these people.

Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.