The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

The people who move forward and overcome their fears do not have some special powers or a magic pill they take

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.""We always go out on Fridays.""It's Thursday, Alvis.""You are so tied to routine.

Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.

What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere.

Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions.

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.