Fiery trials make golden Christians.

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.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Before I met Jesus I wanted to be a professional pool player.

Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.