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

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it’s enough for me that He knows about them. That’s why He sometimes shows us things, you know – to tell us that this too is in His hands.

You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

I’d rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that – if it is only arranging a window blind!

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.