Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ketchup I'm hot, dog Frankfurters, you're Nathan But relish hatin'

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

Love comes from the strangest places.

The point is Obama didn't care that the jobs were leaving, folks!

This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.