A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

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

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

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.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

Well, Ben says you have to be married to get a girl pregnant. And me and Cindy are not married, so she couldn't get pregnant, see?

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.