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

God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!

The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world.

My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I believe them both. I believe them both. I believe take up your cross and deny yourself and follow me, and I believe come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. They are different sides of the same thing.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

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.

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'.