Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

We are not against the evil when our enemies are.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

That's Al Qaeda's new plan: to destroy America one period at a time.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.