Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.

It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose

Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.

I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.

Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.

All fruitfulness flows from intimacy.

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Do you ever feel like you've been waiting your entire life for a specific moment when it'll all make sense?

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.