All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?