I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.

Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.

Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.

I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

The church is the gospel made visible.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.