“Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, ‘Holy’ keeps the respect and reverence while ‘Father’ brings Him close & intimate.”

In today’s society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don’t know the difference anymore.

Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.

Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

I guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can’t be close to God. God has always been close to me. Only He knew what was in my heart.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

I’m quite claustrophobic, and I don’t like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.

Dilbar’ is very close to me. It was a turning point in my career.