“The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful.”

It’s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.

You can’t really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is “His story,” the story of God.

Ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

Faith comes out of the heart not the head.

God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.

You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody.

Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward.

And it’s taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I’m like, “I’m very lucky, I’m lucky, I’m blessed” – all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you’re young, you just don’t listen.

God has blessed the United States of America so that we will purpose to reach out to others and in doing so accomplishing His Will, doing His work, and then He is glorified.

Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music.

I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.

I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years.

I’m thrilled, I’m grateful, I’m blessed. I played for the world’s greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.

The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.