The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

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.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

My faith is so strong that I believe that God made me 5-11 for a reason. For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it, or all the kids that will be told no.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.