“Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.”

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray. It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

The amount of God’s love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside it.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn’t have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

A parent knows better than any book or “expert” what their kid really needs.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.