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When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.