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 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 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.

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

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.

Genius is patience.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.

Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.

I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.