I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.