The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

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.'

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

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.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.