The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.