Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.

It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.