Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

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

If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.

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.

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.