Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.