All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just "no" on everything.