Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

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.

Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim.Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope.

Books signify the mind of many souls.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

What you want, wants you.

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.