Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, He’s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.