Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.