What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.

Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.

I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

Anybody who listens to their intuition risk at times making other people disappointed or even pissed off because you're not tending to what they want from you but instead to what feels right for you.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

I'm not really an impersonator.

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.