Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it.

When God's in it, the job gets done.