The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.

The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.