The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

I let loose a guttural roar-the cry of a man who has been deprived of his rightful kibbeh. I drew my sword and smacked the eagle with flat of the blade

Great. He had a ranch with no power, a burgeoning blizzard, animals depending on him and now, a frightened, felonious elf to look after.

My love translated sounds like a dead language.

You do not truly know yourself until you have learned to appreciate others.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Trying is failing with honor

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.