There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

The introduction of the Protestant religion into Ireland may be principally attributed to George Browne, an Englishman, who was consecrated archbishop of Dublin on the nineteenth of March, 1535.

Life, any life, would be well spent, under any conceivable conditions in bringing one human soul to know and love and serve God and His Son, and thereby securing for yourself at least one temple where your name and memory would be held for ever and for ever in affectionate praise — a regenerate heart in heaven. That fame will prove immortal, when all the poems and pyramids of earth have gone to dust.

Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Dying to something old, a pattern that is comfortable in its dysfunction, so that one can move to a different system, a new freedom.

The marvel of regeneration is the bringing of a soul out of spiritual death into spiritual life. It is a new creation, which is a bringing of something out of nothing.

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.

I cannot express to you how grateful I am that I am a Christian. Before I was a Christian, I went through a time in my life where I just didn't know why I was alive.

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

I used to think I could never bear life if it kept on being the same every day, and I must always be doing things of no consequence and never know anything greater.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.--