“A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.”

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father’s heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

I have so much to do today, I’ll need to spend another hour on my knees.

Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.

Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.

It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.

The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles and big problems. They look at that “bigness” and shrink. They’re smaller than their problems.

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

I came from a big family – two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.

The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!