All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It’s a little bit like a black hole. It’s a little bit like infinity.

Never block that person who is always available for you all the time. Never block him because you may not know what he has done for you. It is the biggest mistake you do in your life

The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.

No decision in the world outlives the time, place, and person’s constituents on the basis of which it was made.

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

I'm definitely not afraid to be wrong.