We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

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.

Without ‘Gnan’ (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called "public" or "popular" opinion.

Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.