I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

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.

Those who do not think bout the future cannot have one.

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Most people hate that their mum has a Facebook page, but I love that my mum does.

I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.