The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Great is the love of God.

Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

...smile first, then speak.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.

Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.