Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.

You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.

There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live Will. You burn as bright as a star.

Education made us what we are.

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.