“You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.”

It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

Thank God for the Bible, the Word of God.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can’t take his riches to heaven, but I’m taking my children

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day.

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

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.

When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.

I’m not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, ‘Yes, baby.’ I’m 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone’s brain.

I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.