The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.

Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.

Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept from outside

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.

Sorry if we can't all be unoriginal but I have a mold to break.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.