No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

There is no gardening without humility

I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.

Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.