While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also people that can make me smile.

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.