Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.

The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me.

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

I love you just the way you arebut you don't see you like I do.You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect.Trust me, perfect should try to be you.

There is no nature at an instant.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.

My characters are not plastic.

I believe that nothing has been more wholesome for America, for our government, for our politics, than the increased participation of women.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.