“A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.”

If I walk with the world, I can’t walk with God.

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church…is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don’t want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

So few grow, because so few study.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it’s lacking substance, and it’s difficult to find good stuff.

We have to visualize a successful victory before we even start a very difficult challenge.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.

The difficulty for me is that I’m interested in so many different things.

As it is, relationships are difficult, aren’t they?

Life with another person is always difficult.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.