To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

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.

Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.