Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.

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.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.