"All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement."

"The Scripture teaches that popularity with the world means death. Satan's most effective tool is conformity and compromise. He is aware that one man standing in the midst of a pagan peoplecan move more people in the direction of God than thousands of insipid professors of religion."

"I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it."

"Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities."

"God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ."

"It was God's love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins."

"By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life-and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world."

"As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the whole world . . .The life of no human being is cheap in the eyes of God, nor can it be in our own eyes."

"Christianity is a Gospel of crisis. It proclaims unmistakably that this world's days are numbered."

"Some day our journey through this life will be over and we will embark on another journey-one that will last forever."

"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."

"There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live-and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!"

"I have been asked the question, “Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?' My answer: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in."

"It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: “God also gave them up” [Romans 1:24 KJV]."

"The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed."

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

"The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ."

"We shouldn't think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is."

"Christians are to be “the light of the world” [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way."

"God gave the Bible to us because He wants us to know Him and love Him and serve Him. Most of all, He gave it to us so we can become more like Christ."

"The Bible says a great deal about entire families coming to Christ. Rahab the harlot . . . the Philippian jailer . . . and Cornelius, the Roman centurion. That could be true in your family too. You may be the one who could lead your family to Christ."

"One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary."

"The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inherent fault in our nature, man's bias is on the side of error. In our willful desire to live independently of God, we have severed the lifeline that flows from the source of all life."

"One of Satan's most effective ways of blocking God's work is to convince us God can't use us to make an impact for Christ. But it isn't true. All around you are people no one else will ever be able to reach with the Gospel."

"God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word."

"The Bible teaches that faith will manifest itself in three ways. It will manifest itself in doctrine-in what you believe. It will manifest itself in worship-your communion with God . . .It will manifest itself in morality-in the way you live and behave."

"No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer. He is our support and our strength. He will help us make our way up again from whatever depths we have fallen."

"Hardship is not our choice; but if we face it bravely, it can toughen the fiber of our souls."

"Many people today have discarded the Bible's clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires."

"No situation is beyond God's control. Over my wife's desk are these words: “Fear not the future, God is already there."

"Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you."

"Death is said in the Bible to be a coronation for the Christian."

"No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary."

"We talk out of both corners of our mouth at once. We say we are a Christian nation, but much of our literature, our social practices, our deep interests are not Christian at all. They are totally secular."

"When Jesus needed friends, they left Him."

"One can approach the Bible with a cold, rationalistic attitude, or one can do so with reverence and the desire to hear God speak."

"Don't conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!"

"The wheels of [God's] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move."

"I have become more deeply aware of the enormous problems that face our world today, and the dangerous trends which seem to beleading our world to the brink of Armageddon."

"When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"The greatest roadblock to Satan's work is the Christian who, above all else, lives for God, walks with integrity, is filled with the Spirit, and is obedient to God's truth."

"Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger."

"A computer . . . has no worth unless it is programmed . . . The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God."

"We've tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we've known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death."

"If it is Christian, it will be Bible-centered."

"If [Christian leaders] do not teach Christian principles to all followers of Christ, we are not equipping them with God's truth that willovercome worldly influence."

"[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father."

"Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts."

"Our worship must be directed to the One who holds the world in His hands."