Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
I don’t have many sad days.
There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.
Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.
I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.
There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age.
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.
Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
Freedom is relative.
I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.
Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.
I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’
People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.
The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.
My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
I never hold a grudge.
Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.
Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.
It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.
Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
The Gospel has never changed.
Christians are not limited to any church.
I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.
I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.
Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.
The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.
It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.
Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.
I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.
If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.
There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.
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