The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.

To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.

If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.

A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.

We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.

Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

I'd rather die in the will of God than to live outside of it.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.