If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ