If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when it's there.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

You have to stop in order to change direction.

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.