“Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.”

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth’s ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for ‘all things work together for good to them that love God.’

In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins.

Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.

When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.

He who obeys the command ‘Rejoice in the Lord’ has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation.

It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.

I may be a nut, but I’m fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior

We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.