The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

I began to think I quite liked her really. It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself.

The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows.

What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

I think the Internet has changed the world.

I think, to Chelsea's [Handler] point, I still need directing because sometimes I go a little bit off beat in a way that it's like, rein it in. I welcome that kind of support.

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

The way you find the answers to your problems will be unique to you.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.