As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in mine.

A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.

Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.

God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

It is not sexuality which haunts society but society which haunts the body’s sexuality

To live without risk is to risk not living.

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.