Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Set your mind first and your body will follow.

You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.

Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

Life's too short. I'm not!

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

I think I made the wrong career choice

I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.