Decide that you're going to love the people around you, even those you don't particularly like - or perhaps especially those you don't like.

What does impress both the unsaved and saved alike are those rare individuals who have learned to control their lifestyles and use the abundance they have to help others and spread God's Word. ... Let me propose a radical idea from God's Word: Determine God's best for your life, and be satisfied with it, even if it means moving down in lifestyle.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.

The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

The measure of true giving is to share with someone who has no platform from which to speak and may never benefit us in any way. After all, isn't that what true love is all about?