What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.

What we require is obedience—the strength to stand and the willingness to leap, and the sense to know when to do which. Which is exactly what we get when an accurate memory of God's ways is combined with a lively hope in his promises.

The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother's is sure.

We live in a pragmatic age and are reluctant to do anything if its practical usefulness cannot be demonstrated.

What is dangerous is not ideas but the academic mind that abstracts both things and people from particular relationships into concepts. And what is dangerous is not programs but the programmatic mind that routinely sets aside the personal in order to more efficiently achieve an impersonal cause.

It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Government social programs introduced in the '60s by liberal Democratic politicians seduced black men into relying on 'programs' over God.

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.