Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

If my wife finds comfort in trite Gispy homilies, I have no objection to your offering them. However, if you ever kiss her again, no matter how platonic the fashion, I'll make a eunuch of you.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

Only the bad man is alone.

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.