“Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.”

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.

Excuses are the cradle that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

God doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God’s hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.

I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

I’ve been writing since I was maybe seven.

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Yes I do like children, Girl children, about eighteen or twenty.