“Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.”

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

Excuses are the cradle that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

God doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God’s hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.

I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.

Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.