If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.

The ice caps are melting now. They're not going to refreeze next year just because we reduce our emissions. We're going to live in that world. So plan for it.

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.