If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.

When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

Maybe it doesn't seem like anyone ever watches or appreciates you. Maybe no one on earth understands you. But your King is always watching you. Do it all for Him.

The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

God wants to take care of us, raise us up and direct us in life

Private Benjamin lives next door but one to Bob Cryer from The Bill. I once saw him crouching down behind a sycamore tree and using his nose as an Allen Key to release a starving rat.

Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.

You only can hurt me if I don't know who I am.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

I got balls the size of grapefruits!