Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself.

Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.