He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.

Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.

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.

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

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.