If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.

I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!

Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!

He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

Be aware of the walls you build and what could be on the other side

Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.

Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.

Another day. Get up and face it.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.