The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

There is no try. There is only do.

Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.""Yes."I drew my gun. "Okay.

Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.