“Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.”

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

I know personally the transforming power of the Word of God-it’s changed my life.

Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God’s holy presence to fellowship.

Give God what’s right, not what’s left!

Don’t let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

The gospel is simply glorious and gloriously simple.

I’m not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

You don’t make Him Lord. He’s Lord already. You just recognize it.

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.

I have an official record. I have the Word of God: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life.”

You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

I was never trained for anything