Quotes from Tony Evans

Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.

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.

Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry.

If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.

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.

Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

To carry our cross is to have such a commitment and identify with Jesus Christ and what He accomplished that I am willing to suffer the repercussions to that identification.

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.

Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

Jesus wants men who will rule well.

A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.

You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?

A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"

Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.

When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.

Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

God is the source. Everything else is a resource.

Don't magnify your problems, magnify your God...he's got you covered.

God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.

It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.