The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

When Jesus needed friends, they left Him.

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.