Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling

In 'whichever direction' you may turn your gaze you will find One Eternal Indivisible Being manifested. Yet, it is not at all easy to detect this Presence, because He interpenetrates everything.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.

You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.