“You can detect Satan’s schemes and overcome his world system.”

You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody.

Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward.

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don’t know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It’s all just premature junk.

Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It’s rock-solid assurance!

And God is not limited in any degree nor any respect. He is totally sovereign. Do you believe that? I hope you do.

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible.

Sin is not just breaking God’s laws; it is breaking His heart.

You can’t sweeten the well by painting the pump.

You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.

That evening she glowed. She gave off a vibration of energy that he suspected only he could detect.

I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.