I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

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.

It doesn't matter what others feel about you, what matters is how do you feel about yourself.

I threw myself so far in your depth that it took me a month to come out and notice I was actually sitting in my room. Nowhere else. Not with you.

I wanted her to notice me, to pay attention to me. It was an irrational desire, one I‘d never experienced before.

Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

We read to know that we are not alone.