“In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament.”

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.

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

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.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries.

To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity].

It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.

I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked.

My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I’m lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues ‘I do not know.’

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids?

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’