If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

Every time the light turns green, stay in the thick of competition.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser.