If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

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.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you’ve ever imagined. That’s what being mindful and living in the present means.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.

I can't speculate on what did or did not happen. I only know what I said and what I intended to convey.

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.