God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

I have my style and I stick to it.