There is a God we want and a God who is, and the two are not the same.

Public worship occurs when the people of God assemble for the express purpose of giving to the Lord the glory due His name and enjoying the joy of His promised special presence with His own people.

We are not the reason the gospel works; the gospel is the reason the gospel works.

Saying 'Preach the Gospel Daily, use words if necessary' is like saying 'Feed the hungry, use food if necessary.'

When the bottom falls out and disappointments come, you will learn what you believe, what you love, and what you treasure.

There's no ideology, only people.

When you deeply and completely love yourself, you find there is nothing to forgive because everyone and everything has contributed to who you are now.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily — weak people, in other words...

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.