Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?

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.

You will be loved as much as you expect.

Our foibles, issues, lies, and idiosyncrasies are not the problem, I swear. Our hiding them is. It’s what leaves us not trusting each other and not developing ourselves to become trustworthy.

We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be.

Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.

I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.