“No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.”

“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”

“Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.”

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

“If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.”

“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

“This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.”

“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”

“The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.”

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”