A revival means days of heaven upon earth.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out?

Isaac stopped her at the bottom of the stairs with a crooked smile. "I would wish you sweet dreams, but how can they be memorable if I won't be in them?

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Let's hold hands and brave this beautiful, crazy life together with a sweet smile and a calm breath.

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?