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

Don’t ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

There can be no mercy without truth.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it’s a choice.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

He died to make you holy. You are not your own.

And when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

God does business with those who mean business.

Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

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.’

As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn’t in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that’s what kept me in the church.

However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.

I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.

As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.

I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.

That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.