As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver.

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.

Beauty is sometimes born of pain

Our Navy is great. Our navy is great. Our people are great... Great.

The best way to protect something is to set it free.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.

Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.