Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

but thinkers and feelers relate to God differently. So do introverts and extroverts. And that goes for all sixteen personality types in the Myers-Briggs matrix, all nine Enneagram types, and all four DISC profiles.

the most basic level of commitment by a Christian to his church is surprisingly substantial.

Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

We all shouldn't try to do the same work. Rather, each of us should pay attention to our own responsibilities. Otherwise, we cannot be of one mind and one heart. We must allow the works to be varied so that each of us can remain with what God has entrusted to us. We should simply do the work at hand.

Communication of this message required a coordinated effort. Each person's willingness to talk to Woodward was cross-checked against the willingness of several others to talk to him. This was part of Woodward's standard method of establishing a critical mass of inside sources: he created a kind of in-group, and this also suggested that if you failed to participate, you would not only lose your opportunity to be part of the in-group but lose your place in history

Many faith communities have become little more than gatherings of isolated individuals, while the number of online communities continues to grow.