Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Have you noticed when you go on a diet the first thing you lose is your temper.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.

Don't fake it till you make it. Just get busy making it!

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

Riches seldom make their owners rich.