The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion.

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.

I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

Your self-portait decides your conduct.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.