My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.