The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

In your Mind you live with n number of characters

When we write down our dreams we transform what we imagine into reality.

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history

I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.