“Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.”

Once I tried to use Him, now He uses me.

It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

Aggressive Christianity is the world’s greatest need.

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.

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.

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten.

The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.