“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.”

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.”—Each New Day

Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.

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.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favor, like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

Union in privacy (with one’s wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

I have always cared about the Indian Rhinos & am speaking up for these mighty beings.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.