Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.