If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

I am motivated by the fact that in the next 365 days, 136,000 Californians will die and most of them will go into an eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 2.4 million Americans will die; most of them will go into eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 74 million people in the world will go into eternity without Christ and without hope. I can't live with that.

If you want to know why you were placed on the planet, you must begin with God.

When you get to heaven God won't ask you why you weren't more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren't more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.