No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

Focus your mind on love, peace and harmony.It will vanish fear, doubt and disharmony.

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.