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

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.

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

Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them.

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.