We should remember that people can go to Heaven without knowing much of the Word of God, but they cannot go to Heaven without knowing Jesus Christ as Savior.

A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.

Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.

If you are a child of God, know that every promise in the Bible is yours.

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.

Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.

Revival begins in the individual's heart. Let it begin with you on your face alone before God. Turn from every sin that might hinder. Renew yourself to a new devotion to the Savior.

In all true faith there is complete committal to God.

The Bible does not contain the Word of God; It is the Word of God.

The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.

Die to self: die to criticism, die to praise.

Only write if you can't not.

This invitation [to deny oneself] is less about depriving the self, and more about disowning, or renouncing a relationship with the part of ourself that is not what God created us to be.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able later to describe what he's gone through it means he was born for literature.

I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Elephants are contagious.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.