The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.