There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

I always wanted to be a shortstop so I could play more often!

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.