We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.

Good news is, we're annoying him. Bad news is, we're all going to die painfully.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

What we don't listen to, is what I am continually telling people in which nobody really, to get down to the nitty gritty believes, is that there is a piece of Divinity in us.

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

I am really high maintenance and won't walk through the microwave that fries your body. I always request a pat down [in airport].

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.