The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

Great. Men affectionately attacked me with sticks to show their admiration.

Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.

Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?