People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.
I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.
Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me.
It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where the needy people grope and grovel, and groan and lift them to new life.
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.