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

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.

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

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’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.

The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.

One of the things I’ve always said is that if you’re given the ability to coach kids, then you’re really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.