The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Our mind can move directly and aggressively on impulse, while our spirit moves gently and calmly on our intuition.

I have battled with loneliness. I have battled with insecurity and rootlessness. But I have never given up the struggle. I have never quit trying in life.

The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.

Every step towards Education is important, Just like every lighting lamp remove a bit of darkness from this world

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.