The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

Human mind is the most unreliable thing in the universe. So control it.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.