People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church’s job is to listen and then to echo.

We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

The only thing for what you are bound is to be in your limit.

On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.

If what you do doesn’t make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

I don't make any apologies for what I do on the campaign trail.

You cannot go with God and stay where you are.

Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.