In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

That's your solution? Have a cookie?

You lost my interest, you aren't a nice guy and very nasty guy.

In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times however avoid friends who sympathize too deeply who give us pity rather than strength.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

He taught me to trust in tomorrow.