I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing to get past.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

The word 'empower' is something that kept coming up in my heart.

I like to enforce myself in the run game. It's something I have control over.

When we invite the Spirit to fill us, the Spirit's power grips our lives with this kind of strength and passion.

It is a pitiable cowardice to try to overcome fear by ignoring the facts. We do not become masters of our fate by saying that we are. And such blatancy of pride, futile as it is, is not even noble in its futility. It would be noble to rebel against a capricious tyrant, but it is not noble to rebel against the moral law of God.

Exodus 4:14). Let us not pass the buck of leadership because we think ourselves incapable.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

Not everyone is courageous by nature. But whether we are bold or reticent, God calls leaders to be of good courage and not to capitulate to fear. Such a call to courage would be rather pointless if nobody feared anything. Because fear is a real part of life, God gives us the Holy Spirit, who fills us with power. But we must let the power do its work, and not fear.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.