I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you. Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down