“Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark.”

Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we’ll be blessed with cursings.

God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

We live by promises not by explanations.

I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God.

The Bible is not primarily a science book.

The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we’re not to judge the Bible.

Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now.

I may be a nut, but I’m fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus.

Did he take them literally? He paused and said, ‘Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.’

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

The barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..

I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.