The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

Don’t be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.

Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.