Tony Evans

“God has established what man is supposed to do, and he expects man to do it his way and not a way independently of him. And when you do things independently of him, you have consequences you don't want to bear.”

“Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.”

“I used to be one of those students who needed to see something bigger, and God brought people into my life who gave me a bigger vision than the circumstances that surrounded me.”

“God is not asking you to be anything other than what he's made you, as long as you submit to how he has made you, to how you relate to other people who he has made different than you.”

“You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don't want to lose either audience.”

“We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us.”

“Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.”

“The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.”

“God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team.”

“People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do.”

“The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.”

“The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.”

“I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.”

“Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.”

“I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.”

“I've talked to men who feel like they're overly sexual and, therefore, are attracted to any female who walks down the street. I will not excuse his activity with every female just because he feels driven in that direction.”

“Anyone who knows me knows that I love football.”

“I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic.”

“Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.”

“Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.”