If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.