When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.

The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.

We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.

I swear I won't touch you even with a finger until you ask me yourself.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.