The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

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.

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.

As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.