I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

I have a bad grammar, but I do have a good message in it.

Old friends are best.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.