The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.

The truth blazed like sunlight in the shadows of Barracks 28. The real sin I had been committing was not that of inching toward the center of a platoon because I was cold. The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.

If you want your ministry to have 'it', more important than anything else we've discussed, you must have 'it'. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God's anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with 'it'. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

God has put more in you than those around you can see.

Prayers are answered in ways we don't choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.

When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.

So many things are impossible only because we limit ourselves to what others tell us we are capable of.

often it is our narrow focus that limits us, she is saying. When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.