After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.

The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

A skunk by any other name still stinks.

There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.