You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory.

Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

The timely dew of sleep.

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

You not nothing til you got something, then everybody love ya. Pops told me that