As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

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.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

Don’t predict the condition of the entire day by the state of the morning. You don’t judge a book by its cover. A cloudy morning is no guarantee for a rainy day!

By unspoken agreement, we all picked an invisible line in the cracked asphalt and toed it.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.

There are people who do, what we would call, lower sorcery. It is best not to be concerned with them. They are not happy people and they can't be a problem if you are aware of what they are doing.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

I teach Sunday school, motherf*****.