There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

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 me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

It feels good read but greater to write.

Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.

There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.

You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.

I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.

I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.