When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

My mom and I are very close.

Once a gunner, always a gunner

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.