“God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.”

They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they’ve never been born again.

How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.

But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight.

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.

Salvation is not a plan; it’s a Man.

The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it,

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

Grace is God’s acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man.

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

I want to stay around longer than the pitchers who were at the top when I came into the big leagues. I don’t want to be gone and have all the old guys – Seaver, Carlton, Ryan and Sutton – still pitching. I got rid of Palmer, now I want to outlast the rest of them.

All I’ve ever done is try to entertain my way through a life that often has a huge amount of heaviness in it.

My brother says I’m too famous to hang around with him.

I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when “Howl” and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up.

Really? Is it long enough to go around both our necks and the chimney so we can tandem jump off of this? That’s all I really care about you and your little garden hose.

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.