The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo.

Keep practicing. Never let someone tell you you're too small or too slow.

We will have a peace dividend to spend on rebuilding America, beginning with our American inner cities. We're going to rebuild them, for once and for all.

If you're white, you're alright. If you're brown, stick around. but if you're black, oh baby. Get back, Get back, Get back.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.