"If you belong to Jesus Christ, you are called to live a life of purity and holiness. God wants your mind to be shaped by Him so that your thoughts and goals reflect Christ."

"The mystery of God's love would not be a mystery if we knew all the answers."

"If the United Nations could bring lasting peace, man could say to God, “We do not need You anymore. We have brought peace on earth and have organized humanity in righteousness.” All of these schemes are patchwork remedies that a sick and dying world must use while waiting for the Great Physician."

"There must be no discrepancy between what we say and what we do, between our walk and our talk."

"I just want to lobby for God."

"Marriage is God's invention, not ours! Society didn't establish it; God did."

"We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things."

"Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same."

"We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy."

"Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on God that saves you; it's His hold on you."

"Becoming a Christian takes only a single step, being a Christian means walking with Christ the rest of your life."

"Pray because Christ died to give us access to the Father. Pray because God is worthy of our praise. Pray because we need His forgiveness, cleansing, guidance, and protection. Pray because others need our prayers."

"God's standard is expressed in the Bible, and the ultimate example of that standard is Jesus Christ. When we live by the truth, we possess integrity."

"Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him."

"Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God."

"Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent."

"Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings."

"[Integrity] means a person is the same on the inside as he or she claims to be on the outside. He is the same person alone in a hotel room a thousand miles from home as he is at work or in his community or with his family. A man of integrity can be trusted."

"Peace with God and the peace of God in a man's heart and the joy of fellowship with Christ have in themselves a beneficial effect upon the body and mind and will lead to the development and preservation of physical and mental power."

"God's followers need to know the truth He sets forth in His Word so that we can confidently discern between His truth and Satan's lies."

"A good marriage is not “made in heaven,” but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly."

"If [Jesus] felt that He had to pray, how much more do we need to pray!"

"I could recall countless illustrations of men and women who have encountered Jesus Christ . . .Their whole lives have been transformed."

"God's house will be happy because Christ will be there."

"Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy-degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill."

"We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived."

"The Bible teaches there is hell for every person who willingly and knowingly rejects Christ as Lord and Savior. Many passages could be quoted to support that fact."

"Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world's goods."

"No one can grasp the love of the God of the universe without knowing His Son."

"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip."

"Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend."

"Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life."

"This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good."

"Come back to the Bible. Begin to read it. Study it and God will speak to you and change you-and through you perhaps history can be changed."

"Volumes could be written on the problem of [drug] addiction. Millions of barbiturates are swallowed every night to help the nation sleep. Millions of tranquilizers keep us calm during the day. Millions of pep pills wake us up in the morning. The Bible warns that these flights from reality bring no lasting satisfaction."

"It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross-it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer his death."

"There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him."

"Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene,the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one's own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable."

"Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth."

"Satan is masterful at using just enough of God's truth to capture a person's attention and then mix it with his devious potion that will lead [believers] astray."

"The Greek word used in the New Testament to designate a sorcerer or a person who practiced occult magic is “pharmakeus,” or one who mixed drugs and used them to induce spells . . .Such practices are included in the list of “acts of the sinful nature” in Galatians 5:19–21 that God will judge."

"We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient."

"As I read the Bible, I seem to find holiness to be [Christ's] supreme attribute."

"The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross."

"For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God."

"We are going through a sexual tempest, a bombardment provided by unprecedented exploitation of cheap sex by moviemakers, theater owners, publishers, and producers of pornography. [There is more] openness of talk about sex, acceptance of public nudity . . . homosexuality. Sex revolution, no! But sex pollution? Yes!!"

"The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves."

"It is a comfort to hear the words of God in times of stress."

"Something distinguishes Christianity from all the religions of the world. Not only does it carry the truth of the redemption, by the death of our Savior for our sins on the cross, but it carries the fact that Christ rose again."

"What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me."