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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.