Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

I think we pray, we make a clear-headed decision, and then we quit being so mean to each other. We've got to stop that.

Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

I have some friends whose sermons are extremely practical - so practical that I can put them right to use. I'm trying to learn how to do that better; but I don't think my approach or style really has changed in these 30 years. Whether that's good or bad I don't know, but I don't think it has.

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.