The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.