Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.

You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.