His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

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.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned if I know what they are.

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

All bibles are man-made.

The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.