“If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China.”

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.

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.

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.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

What works for Germany can’t work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

There’s an awareness of fashion in this country, and it’s not limited to gay people.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.