Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from sex. It doesn’t come from salary. It comes from serving.

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.

The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only - only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don't think you can legislate the evil out of people.