The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.