It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave.

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.

Football these days isn't going forwards. It's going sidewards

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.