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.

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.

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

I needed something else, some kind of juice.He gave me a hooked-eyebrow glance and took a showy swig of the water. Mmm, he said, smacking his lips. Water-juice. It's fantastic.

This world isn’t a fair place, because we never know how much time we’ve really got.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

I don't think good films have messages.

I have my name down for the Apple Watch and yoga. I know it's a cliché but I need that antidote, it helps with everything.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.

There's no way to actually turn the rover off.