Maturity is produced through relationships and community.

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

In the end we must be merciful to the fallen, show grace to struggling, and be patient with the doubting. But when God's Word is clear we must not-and we cannot-back up, back off, back down, back out, or backslide from the truth.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

I spend most of my time speaking to people who totally disagree with me. I speak to gays, I speak to atheists, I speak to secularists, I speak to Muslims because I am trying to build a bridge between my heart and theirs so Jesus can walk across and they can come to know Christ.

We had one rule which was 'whatever you are feeling, that's okay'

You don't have to be famous to be great.