I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I'll kill you!David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will still love you.

Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt like the sun was shining from his heart." - from the novel Brainjob by David Sloma.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.

Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!

Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.