The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.
Walk away from your own preoccupations. . . and see the perishing multitudes.
The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.
When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.
All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.
Every Christian leader should have this engraved in his subconscious. No matter what you do, never take yourself too seriously God always chooses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. He shows his might only on the behalf of those who trust in Him. Humility is the place where all christian service begins.
We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. . . . We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God.
One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.
If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.
Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.