Character is what you do in the dark.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground

Trust yourself and do what you want to do!!

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

Just because someone's older and you think they're cooler doesn't mean you should abandon your real friends.

Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.

Reading is where the wild things are.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.