Quotes from Wayne Cordeiro

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." MAY SARTON

Suffering will change us, but not necessarily for the better. We have to choose that. And it was the choosing that made all the difference for me.

But there's also another reason I like to meet for devotions in public places. Think of how many people pass by us as they wait in line for their morning coffee. Most will definitely notice five or six people with their Bibles open, writing in journals. Our favorite meeting place is busy; approximately a hundred people will saunter by us in an hour.

Four days a week at a hundred a day . . . that's four hundred people, weekly, moseying past our group, noticing open Bibles and eager disciples. In four weeks 1,600 people will amble by our quiet 20/20/20 testimony.

The last 5 percent . . . it's something we have to discover and then be responsible for. • • Only I can be a husband/wife to my spouse. • • Only I can be a father/mother to my children. • • Only I can grow myself spiritually. • • Only I can keep myself healthy. • • Only I can keep myself disciplined.

Worship begins with my daily times before His throne, listening to His heart. And, when I leave, I expect to live differently because of what I just heard. It is often a whisper you will hear from the King

PRAYER Father, may I be so close to You that I can hear Your musings and be moved to action!

What sets God's people apart from everyone else is not our accoutrements or our language. It won't be our music, our programs, or our bumper stickers. It will be the presence of the Lord . . . His hand being upon us.

Necesité a Dios para aquietar todas las voces, menos la de Él

A number of people I talked to had predicted it. He was very detail-oriented

The Dream Releasers How to Help Others Realize Their Dreams While Achieving Your Own

The promise of a dreamer's future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.

[God] deposits a dream of what we can be for Him, a dream that acts as our internal honing device.

An entire nation shook under the power of one man's [MLK's] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.