An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.

Thoughtful symmetry in a maze of tortuous confusion, Loving me is a battle, wrought with pain and illusion

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.