“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction”

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. … To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions every day, I say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.”

“If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.”

“Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom, Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

“Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.”

“One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static.”

“If you are to become more sensitive, you must be willing to take a risk. Take the initiative to find a need and take action.”

“I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...”

“The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself.”

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.”

“In our desire to make Christ known and to increase the influence of the church, we are many times prone to think that Christians and the church can be made popular with the unbelieving world. This is a grave mistake on the part of the church.”

“Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.”

“But you cannot go through the Door of Destiny without passing through the Hall of Haters.”

“It doesn’t matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That’s just the way life is.

“In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.”