“He peered up the ladder. In his young imagination, it must have reached the clouds. ”

“In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.”

“The single best way to develop leaders . . . is to take people out of their safe environment and away from the people they know, and throw them into a new arena they know little about. Way over their head, preferably. In fact, the more demanding their challenges, the more pressure and risk they face, the more likely a dynamic leader will emerge.”

“Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.”

“The journey to your big dream”

“Keep your eyes on Christ, not the circumstances you find yourself in or the feelings you are experiencing.”

“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”