At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.

Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.

What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

Before I traveled my road I was my road.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

God's desire is that we excel.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.