“What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?”

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn’t hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

Some ministers say, ‘If you don’t repent you’ll die and go to a place the name of which I can’t pronounce.’ I can! You’ll go to hell!

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We’re not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?

Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.