Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.

Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.