The standard is the standard and whomever walks in the door at the time I need a person in that position who can do that job with excellence and who understands my vision, if they can fulfill it, they got the job whether they're young, old, black, white, male or female.

It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.

You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.