To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

The Father most tender Father of all my immense God-I His atom.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.

I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.