And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.

A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.

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'.

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

On Thanksgiving we do just everything except give thanks. We eat, we watch football, we have a good time with family. Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.