God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

Time can be used to convert anything

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

There's some people on the pitch... they think it's all over... it is now!

Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.