Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.

It’s impossible to know what sin is if we don’t know what God says.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.