In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.