The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

Patience is a form of faith. It says, "I trust God. I believe that God is bigger than this problem."

I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.