The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

Mine is the blood of the dragon.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

It's very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard

I don't know how I ever lived before You are my life, my destiny Oh my darling, I love you so You mean everything to me

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision