Someone has said that there are four things necessary in studying the Bible: Admit, submit, commit and transmit.

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.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

The future depends on what you do today.

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.

I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.