Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Where God's grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.

Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManI am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage.i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.

You call that a kiss?

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

There's nothing that annoys me more than people being horrible to my mates.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.