Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

Contentment is the greatest wealth.

I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

Business is at the heart of America and always has been.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.