Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.