Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.The Twenty-first Voyage

I don't mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you're always alone, you get lonely.

Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting!

I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.