Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.