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

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.

If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

A heart is all that didn't get removed.

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience.

She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.