It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

A man is a slave of everything he does. Some things get rid off easily, some things doesn't.

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

Fame is not your friend. It ain't necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.