Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

I have come to the conclusion that there has never been an honest investigation by any authoritative body in the history of the world.

So that’s what art is, for the artist, ” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

I am really, really tired.

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

People who are bad at time management. If you say you're going to be somewhere at a certain time, be there!

Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it