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.

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.

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.

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars

Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.

I was married and divorced at 23.

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

I'm sure it's nothing switching to a light beer won't cure.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

You can ask my wife about my stamina.