Above all else, know that good leaders always define their own reality. No one else can build a discipling culture for you—it must begin in your own life and then overflow into the lives of those you lead. You will not be the perfect example, but you can be a living example.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

True potential and fulfillment in life is not what is accomplished, but who benefits from them. Your

I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as God-in-public, and that methods of criticism designed to keep this rumor quiet need to be challenged by appropriate historical, theological, and political critique and replaced by methods that do justice to the reality of the texts and hence do justice - in the much fuller sense - in the public world that the Gospels demand to address.

In the same way many Christians--whole generations of them, sometimes entire denominations--have in their possession a book which will do a thousand things not only in and for them but through them in the world. And they use it to sustain only three or four things they already do.