When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

Thank God for the Bible, the Word of God.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.