Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale.

Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.