Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

So, what are you?""What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.