I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

If you're following your heart, you're moving in the right direction.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.