People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.

Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him.

He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

State control is important for the people who have always been excluded from the claims of social and economic development.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.