“Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy Kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom go.””

He is the person or thing that if lost would leave us desolate.

You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.

If you look up into His face and say, “Yes, Lord, whatever it costs,”

You will be that inevitably–but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God’s Son.

We had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him.

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

Prayer releases the grip of Satan’s power; prayerlessness increases it.

That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church.

The Christian life doesn’t get easier as one gets older.

Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.

There’s some task which the God of all the universe, the great Creator, your redeemer in Jesus Christ has for you to do.

First of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far.

Have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.