The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.

Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.