Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.

There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.