After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.

Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.