Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

We are the custodians of life's meaning.

Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That's all it takes.