God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.