We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

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.

I’m not paralyzed by fear about what might have been or what might be. I’m grateful for what is and I make excellent use of what I’ve got.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!

I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. “Who’s Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?” “They won’t accept the charges,” I murmured.