My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.