Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Eventually you will come to realize that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

On his teenage son: To be honest, I'm not sure the same kid comes home each night.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.