Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

OR am I the only warlock you know?" "No... but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.