“I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I’ve come to the bottom of the Word of God.”

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

There can be no mercy without truth.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it’s a choice.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

He died to make you holy. You are not your own.

And when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

God does business with those who mean business.

Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

A faith that hasn’t been tested can’t be trusted.

First Corinthians 6:20 says ‘For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.’

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.