“Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.”

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

A faith that hasn’t been tested can’t be trusted.

First Corinthians 6:20 says ‘For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.’

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we’ll be blessed with cursings.

God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

We live by promises not by explanations.

I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God.

Charlie Christians’ contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons’ contributions to the world.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

To be fully human is perhaps why I’m Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.

Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option – legend.

My Christian faith is my backbone

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.

Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!