But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

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.

Allowing myself to wander off into the vast jungles of religion and spirituality has often led to me stumbling upon life altering new ways of thinking, living, and being.

Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.

Religion without reason is like making love without love.

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.

...the crazy never die.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

I will eat anything, at least once. For better or worse.

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.