Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Our greatest quest in life should be to live in the light!

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.