World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.