You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

I think that at the core of faith is trust.

Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.

Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.