“Success is more difficult to handle than failure.”

We have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

The purpose of prayer and of God’s call in your life isn’t to make you number one in the world’s eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

In today’s society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don’t know the difference anymore.

Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.

Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald’s. Everything else was secondary for me.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?