If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

All stories are connected. In the end everything is connected.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

They don’t see what they’re doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.

Why do you look like that, Duane?""Like what, Cletus?""Like your heart is diseased.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.