I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

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.

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

Divine is supernatural.

What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Be committed to whatever you're doing. That's something I've taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

Never take a person away from the music they love.