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

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.

Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

I hate when men think that money is gonna buy you happiness... I mean, it helps.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.

I've done coke 'til my nose was bleeding like the fourth week of Lilith Fair.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.