We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

You are God’s special possession.

Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

What we mean by integration is not to be with them (whites) but to have what they have.

Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.

I just want to thank [my wife] for loving me where I was weak.