“I hope for the day when everyone can speak of God without embarrassment.”

“One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.”

“I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!”

“Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.”

“Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. ”

“There are days when I can find nothing good in the world and I hate everyone.”