So who would win in a fight, the toughest Christian in America — or this guy?

But, Sylvester Stallone added, he’s been going through a change in his life. He’s realized that he was wrong to place his career and fame ahead of his family.

“The more I go to church,” he said, “and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.”

And, admitting that the analogy might be a little pedestrian, he made a correlation between physical and spiritual fitness.

“You need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself,” he said. “I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.”

–Stuart Shepard, “The Gym of the Soul”, CitizenLink.com, November 15, 2006