Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.

If I say, “I am weak, ” I ensure that I stay weak. If I say, “I cannot, ” “I’m not the type to, ” “I am not able, ” then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?