A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

Life itself demands change from every dweller of planet earth.

You have divine abilities for a great mission.

I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.