“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”

A divided heart loses both worlds.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

When I cannot understand my Father’s leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord’s coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

You must have faith in God.

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

The safe place lies in obedience to God’s Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

Christ rises above all things.

We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer…the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural.

A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self… When acting, you’re someone else.