I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry.

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.

I'm very much a people person.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.