How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.

I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world - yet.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.

You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.

I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.