"There's only one alternative to obedience to Christ, and that's disobedience."
"Did it ever occur to you that nothing ever occurs to God?"
“God loves us just the way we are. But loves us too much to leave us that way.”
"When you are in a storm, what seems to be a problem to you is not a problem to God."
“When we pray for rain, we ought to carry an umbrella.”
"To understand the part of the Bible you don’t understand is to obey the part you do understand, and before long you’ll begin to understand what you didn’t understand. Understand?"
"We can never really go where God is not; and where He is, all is well."
“You have all of God you want. If you don't have any more, it's because you're satisfied like you are.”
“God has a purpose and plan for me that no one else can fulfill.”
“Truth is to your spirit what food is to your body, what light is to your eyes, what melody is to your ears."
“God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage."
The Lord never said, "I'll show you … then you'll believe." He said, "Believe. Then, I'll show you."
“A faith that cannot be tested cannot be trusted.”
"Some people brighten up a room just by leaving."
"You are never more like the Lord Jesus when you're in submission—you're never more like the devil than when you're in rebellion."
"Our job is not to be successful, our job is to be faithful."
"Your reputation is your actions. Your character is your reactions."
"We don’t have to get together. The Southern Baptist Convention doesn’t have to survive. I don’t have to be the Pastor of Bellevue. I don’t have to live! But I’m not going to compromise the Word of God."
“God has a purpose and plan for me that no one else can fulfill.”
"EXALT the Savior, EDIFY the saint, and EVANGELIZE the sinner, that’s what we’re here for."
"Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay."
“I may be a nut, but I am fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ."
"I don't find the will of God. The will of God finds me, and I respond to it.”
“The freedom that Jesus gives is not freedom to do what we want, but the freedom to do as you ought.”
"Joy is important in winning people to Christ. Don't go around looking like an advance agent for the undertaker."
"There is no problem that cannot be solved by prayer. There are no problems too big to solve, just people too small to solve them."
"Failure is not Final" and "It's not how you start but how you finish."
