We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.

You can't really move forward if you don't heal the past and identify and address the fact that you had a problem and in some cases still have issues. That has to be dealt with.

The gods have their own rules.