People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.

Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.

What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.