The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

In relationships, there are no beginning and no end.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

No sir, I don't know why, but my eyes don't cry no more.

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing.

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.