When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

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.

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

I bend but do not break.

Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.