Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

I'm The Legend Killer, Shawn! Why? 'Cause I kill Legends!

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.