If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.

Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

Any person that says, "Of course I wouldn't do ______" doesn't know their own heart.

We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime you have to draw the line somewhere.

There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there

Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.