It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

What happened once I started distributing communion was the truly disturbing, dreadful realization about Christianity: You can't be a Christian by yourself.

Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith.

Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources.

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.