No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

When we follow our passion in life we choose to be in harmony with our inner nature.

It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.

Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit brings peace to your mind and heart as you uncover and make the right choice and align yourself with professional, ethical standards.

How did you… never mind. I keep forgetting you are a demon and can travel anywhere in the blink of an eye.”

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.