You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.

A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?