What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

Fake it till you feel it

I balance you on the end of my pen.Teetering between loveand letting go.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

Send the haters all my love. X and O.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?