The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right.

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.

To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.

If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.

A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.

We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.

Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

I'd rather die in the will of God than to live outside of it.

Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.