“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

Unthankfulness is theft.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.

Some people are homeless not because they don’t have a roof over their head. but because they’re no more with the people they used to call their home.

The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn’t it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else?

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

For time does nothing for you if you do nothing with it.