“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It’s something in which we become totally involved.

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross – it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

If your faith isn’t rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you’re in front of them.

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

My stepfather stepped in where no man would’ve stepped in – six kids, five of them boys – and that’s heroic.

When I was growing up we didn’t have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.

When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother. We might very well have ended up on welfare.

When you’re 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.

Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.

You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.