The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

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.

To generalize is to be an idiot, " said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something." Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what you came up with?

The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

Brains are not everything.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.