Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition, nobody should indulge in it.

So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.

The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.