Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

I can write about all of these bizarre and funny characters in my book, "Diggin' Elroy, " because I know them better than anyone else. I have a little bit of all of them in me.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?