Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.
Faith is a spirit. It is an attitude. It is confidence in the heart.
I know that there are some people who are perpetually negative. I sincerely believe that if you want to fly with the eagles you cannot afford to walk with the turkeys. I will walk away from those people when they start to attack the vision.
Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.
My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God’s vision for your ministry. ”
Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.
What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we’re reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.
Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.
Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.