If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

I wanted her body and soul, but body first.

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top.