If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

Every day is divine. If you seek the sacred treasure you will find it.

My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.

Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it and I get to write it and hire actors that I've loved for such a long time!" It's amazing!

There are infinite possibilities.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.