Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

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.

One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.

I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace