If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

It is not about giving her the world, it is all about making her realize that she is the only one in it.

How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them.