I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.

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.

When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

We can beat anyone on our day - so long as we score.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.