Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.

A writer's mind can never be empty.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.