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

You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

God doesn’t need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God’s way to grow Christians.

And dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

The reason that so many times we don’t win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

A healthy person can accept criticism.

But the consecration that doesn’t reach your purse has not reached your heart.

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn’t necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you’ll be able to bear it.

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

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

What you are alone is what you are.

It doesn’t matter if you please the whole world and don’t please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn’t matter whom you displease.

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.