“I have an official record. I have the Word of God: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life.””

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice.

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

God is never in a hurry, but God is never late.

The Church is not a showboat; it’s a battleship.

Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally.

He doesn’t break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

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.

I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life.

If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.

So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).