Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

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.

In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

The Lord Protector and his hair got off the elevator.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.