Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.