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.

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.

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

Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn.

My only regret is that I don't have more to regret.

If I am not for myself who will be?

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

Hope is the best contraceptive.

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.