That was the advantage of a young mind--believing was easier.

Beginning to sense his call to preach boldly in dangerous situations even though he was young and slight, the author agreed to go only if God would give him a particular sense of His presence. The next morning, the author says it was as if God took out his human eyes and replaced them with God's own because he saw other people so much more vividly.

I do my own way of witnessing. Not by verbally intimidating people but just by my actions.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

War is young men dying and old men talking

One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.

Just because I'm a wren doesn't mean I can't preach an eagle message. Of course I can. Is that a lack of integrity if I preach something bigger than I can even feel, if I preach a message that I haven't even grown to? That's not a lack of integrity. That's accepting the call. That's what it is because there's too much at stake to do otherwise.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

Young Christians are sick of pablum. It doesn't work anymore. They are tired of rabbinical hair-splitting, empty liturgical apparatus, Sunday school minutiae, the ghostly voices of the old regime; they reject stuck minds and methods and by their indifference to structures and traditional authorities

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.