The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

We aren't playing as well as we'd like.

It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.