Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

So many people want to die when all they need is to start living.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

No one does wrong voluntarily.