It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself.