You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone.

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.