“If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!”

I don’t often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

There was never one who came into the world with such loving compassion and who entered into all the needs of the people as did the Lord Jesus. And he declares to us, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you he that believeth on me.

God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.

I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.

Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!

There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us.

It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.

We should never compare what we are with what we could be, because we will always be down on ourselves when we do this.

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He does.

Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world.

You can do terrible things when you don’t know who you are.

This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

We already know that there are those close to James Comey who have a very different take, if there are tapes, of course, that would be the best evidence of what took place.

The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him.

You can’t learn anything from being perfect.

Can we all just stop being dicks?!

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.