The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Fall several times doesn't matter, how many times you stand up matters

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.