Quotes about Communication

Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

I feel like it is important to make sure you are always praying, always talking to have clarity of mind and peace.

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then when I am out there preaching, I do not carry notes.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.