If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

God has given different gifts to different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realized that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.