“Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.”

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

Unthankfulness is theft.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

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

Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.

Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

If your faith isn’t rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

FAITH: Full Assurance In The Heart.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.