The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

Temper your future actions.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.