Being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall.

In a single sentence, Gandhi has given me a new way to live with the verse at the end of Matthew's Gospel, which Christians sometimes call the Great Commission. The way to make a disciple is to be one. If your life does not speak, your footnotes will have limited impact. Become worthy of the message, and join the spinning brigade. Why isn't that the Great Commission?

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

The two things that make you a good head coach in this league are if you can get the players to respect you and if you can come across with a clear, consistent message.

We want to reach out to the young people. We want the hearts of the young people to turn to God.

Some of the best coaches I've been around are those people I worked with in high school.

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.

Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.