People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change.

So do Your work, do it in Your timing, and help us to be faithful while You work.

Don't expect any miracles, I can only come in and do what I can and give my best. I can't work miracles but I will try to.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.

When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we still had a sense of morality.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

I stay motivated no matter what.

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

I want to do good work. I want to be involved in other people's doing good work.

But the true test of a church—and of a man—is not how good it looks, but the kind of impact it makes in the community.

Through thick and thin, drought and flood, good times and bad, even though there's opposition, even though things may not be working out the way we had hoped or planned, we have one goal in this one short life we live on planet earth: Do not lose focus. Serve the purposes of God.