“There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.”

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

It is not lost time to wait upon God!

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”

If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

You are a dream that makes it difficult to get up in the morning.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.