“Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.”

“I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!”

“First impressions never have a second chance.”

“Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.”

“If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.”

“The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.”

“You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.”

“I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.”