Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.

To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.

If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.

A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.

We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.

Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

I'd rather die in the will of God than to live outside of it.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Sleeping is nice. You forget about everything for a little while.

It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

I think they were scared of me because I was different.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

[L]ove is inventive to infinity.