The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the ministries if my father would have simply walked away. When I accepted the role as the next senior pastor, he had agreed to be an ambassador-at-large and raise funds for the endowment fund. He didn't do that.