First, I got myself born. The worst of the job was up to me.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

My identity does not begin when I begin to understand myself. There is something previous to what I think about myself, and it is what God thinks of me. That means that everything I think and feel is by nature a response, and the one to whom I respond is God. I never speak the first word. I never make the first move.

And I remembered Willi's prophetic portrait of me, warning me against entering the American competition to be a pastor who "gets things done" and who is "going somewhere.

The exact meaning of Jeremiah is not certain: it may mean "the LORD exalts"; it may mean "the LORD hurls." What is certain is that "the LORD," the personal name of God, is in his name.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

We don't lead because we are necessarily the most qualified; we lead because we are "called" to be the leader.

I was ordained into the ministry through my local church in February of 2000. I had already been doing a lot of speaking. So basically, my vocation in life changed and I went from a professional wrestler to a itinerate preacher.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.