This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.

The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.