If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

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.

There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.