Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers at home.

The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.

Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads to a manuscript, which leads to a book..... just start with a word!

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

We don't have to become big scholars, we don't have to become big supermen. We simply have to become a humble servant of Lord Krishna.

You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.

I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go.

When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I believe in the law of attraction...I believe you can speak things into existence. When you know where you're going and you know what you want, the universe has a way of stepping aside for you.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.