It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single “David” standing with God, than a million “Goliath’s” standing without Him.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.