Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Lord, help my poor soul.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

Saints need sinners.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.