I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a child with these dreadful calliper things, and in push-chairs and God knows what else. I had no interest in sport and no ability at it, and so on. But on the other hand, I had a very powerful imaginative life.
Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.