“There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.”

If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

God’s work is not man working for God; it is God’s own work, though often wrought through man’s hands.

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

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

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference…instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

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

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

God is working in the trouble. He’s working in that situation that’s difficult.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.