We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

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.

My mind is like a seaYou will only drown, If you think you can swimThere are things that devours me, No love can ever save me.

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage.