Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it.

Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.

I think suspense is a big thing.

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.