Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

Out of suffering comes creativity

The beauty of the present and the future can only be seen by those who are willing to let go of the past.

Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

Create and preserve the image of your choice.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

He can cook and give good massages. What more do you need in a husband?

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.