The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.

The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girlsare always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.

Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders.

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

Well it's not that I HATE them, but honestly if I saw two homeless people begging for money, one white and one black, and I only had one quarter... Well I'd probably keep it actually.