I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

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.

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.

The inquisitive nature of youth should carry over into our adult lives. Challenging the status quo and enticing curiosity should be a daily practice of adult life.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'

When I dive, I dive into a different dimensional plane. I am not in this world anymore. Someone might see the body, but the spirit has left. It has gone everywhere or nowhere.

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.

Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.