“If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.”

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don’t use it to pray before a competition. I’ll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

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.

Never will He hold your hand more tightly than when He is leading you through the dark.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.