The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.’

If you'll do now what other people won't, you'll do later what other people can't.

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

Always be ready to give a good testimony for the Lord, but remember that the best testimony a Christian can have is a love for others and good work habits.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.

'I've got my warrior name, too!' - 'Crookedjaw?' - 'How did you guess?' A purr rumbled in his throat. 'Beacuse your tail's still straight.'

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

The antidote to fear is faith.