I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

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.

In this universe, love is the liberating force from the prison of judgment.

life will come to an end one moment in time.

Fate is a funny thing, isn’t it?

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.