Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

You don’t have any balls?’ For once I wasn’t trying to be insulting.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.