To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

If you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

I have seen many educated persons splitting garbage over roads and many uneducated persons cleaning it.

If the purpose of your life is to seek happiness, you will be happy even if you are not a success.

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.