The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

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.

There is something strangely ecstatic, oddly fascinating and infinitely magnetic about unrequited love.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Don’t let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.

He held a beautiful bouquet of mixed wildflowers and offered them to her. "They missed you." He brushed a kiss on her lips. "Just like me.

Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language.

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.