Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you... but who desperately needs Christ in you.

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

Some women blush when they are kissed some call for the police some swear some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.