Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

I know that I am floating on the benefit of other people. I do not deserve the blessings that I've gotten.

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

Ministry is received, not achieved.

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.

I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.