A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect

How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

I believe that as an entrepreneur, when you share success, it grows.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother."

As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.