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"So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are."
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"Love God so much that, when you are entrusted with much, nothing else will be able to control your heart."

"The law of getting results says, never leave the place of your decision without taking specific steps directed toward its fulfillment."

"Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time."

"Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them."

"Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship."

"To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for."

"I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."

"To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles."

"God is able to really use a person, who puts all that he has got into his work, who works hard, sweating his guts out to the point of complete exhaustion, using the last of his strength."

"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."
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"My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians."


"I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God."


"I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible."


"Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change."


"The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor."


"Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people."


"So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present."


"The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again."


"In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion."


"The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media."
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