A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.

Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.

What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.