Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

I have been talking about that for a long time, but it's very, very important to me [to unify the country.]

There is no escape if love is not there

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.