We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.

The purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

Your hereditary is not nearly as important as your legacy.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.