You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

I never want to see umbrellas around me." he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.