"We were created to live a life of prayer."

"Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective."

"The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless."

"Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the Gospel provides in Christ. We Christians ought to be light and salt in the society in which we live."

"God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This prompting comes from the Holy Spirit."

"If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent."

"Not only does God give us a new relationship with Himself and make us citizens of His kingdom, but He also gives us a new family-the family of God."

"Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness."

"Every journey has a starting point . . . and it has an end. God meant for [life] to be filled with joy and purpose. He invites us to . . . take the rest of our journey with Him."

"The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task . . . The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda."

"Man would have remained forever lost if God in His infinite mercy had not sent His Son to earth to bridge this gulf."

"Christians at work in the world are the only real spiritual light in the midst of great spiritual darkness. This places a tremendous responsibility on all of us."

"Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word."

"Sin is rebellion against God."

"The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ."

"What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?"

"I realize more than ever that this ministry has been a team effort. Without the help of our prayer partners, our financial supporters, our staff, and our board of directors-this ministry and all of our dreams to spread the Good News of God's love throughout the world would not have been possible."

"The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world,” and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities."

"A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer."

"When disappointment or tragedy or suffering strikes, we have a decision to make: Will we turn away from God, or will we turn toward Him? Which road will we take? One road leads to doubt, anger, bitterness, fear, hopelessness, and despair.The other leads to hope, comfort, peace, strength, and joy."

"If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness."

"God's holiness demands that sin be punished-but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ."

"The book of Job does not set out to answer the problem of suffering, but to proclaim a God so great that no answer is needed."

"Jesus did not dispute [Satan] . . . our Lord quoted Scripture, and that's one thing the devil can't stand! The Scripture defeats him every time."

"The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic."

"Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place."

"My job is to preach the Gospel, which has the power to change men's lives from the inside out."

"What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die."

"Don't take your Bible for granted! For centuries ordinary believers had no access to the Bible; Bibles had to be painstakingly copied by hand and were very expensive. The only access most people had to the Bible was by hearing it read in church. The invention of the printing press changed all that, however, and today the Bible is readily available in multiple translations and hundreds of languages around the world."

"The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word."

"Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families."

"Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains . . . a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word."

"It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies."

"Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God's forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God."

"As long as you look only at the situation in the world today, it will be very hard . . . to overcome your worries because it is true that there are many problems and the future is unknown to us. Lift your eyes beyond your circumstances and learn instead to trust God. Worrying . . . won't change anything."

"The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond against a rough background. He should be more wholesome than anyone else. He should be poised, cultured, courteous, gracious, but firm in the things that he does and does not do. He should laugh and be radiant, but he should refuse to allow the world to pull him down to its level."

"Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust."

"The [Bible's] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race."

"Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the Gospel truth."

"Only a strong faith-a faith based on God's Word-will protect us from temptation and doubt."

"Ours may be the heritage of the withheld promises. We have been blessed through the endurance and faithfulness of those who have suffered in the past; the people around us, or those who will succeed us, may be blessed through our trials and suffering and how we react to them."

"Religion,” [some] argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can't beat a man who believes in himself.” But this self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more dope addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides than any other generation that ever lived. It is time for all of us to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we put less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God."

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

"As long as Satan is loose in the world and our hearts are dominated by his evil passions, it will never be easy or popular to be a follower of Christ."

"The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it."

"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

"Persecution may wear an insulting face. Insults may come as a result of a Christian's lifestyle, which should be different from that of the secular world."

"We should be about our Father's business by pouring His compassionate love into aching and parched souls that have nowhere to turn, no one to love, and no one to care. Let them see Jesus in us. That is a living testimony."

"Be honest about your weaknesses and ask God to help you overcome them so you can serve Christ more effectively."

"When someone hurts us, our natural instinct is to strike back-but when we do, we not only destroy any possibility of reconciliation, but we also allow anger and hate to control us."