The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.

When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.