You cannot be spiritually free and financially bound.

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.

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.

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man.

Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't bring ingots with us to market

When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.