“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.”

If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

God’s work is not man working for God; it is God’s own work, though often wrought through man’s hands.

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference…instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

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

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

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

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.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

What’s your brand? If you can’t answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand’s in trouble.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?

Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.

Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?” Some days, the answer is ‘yes’ but sometimes it’s not.