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

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.

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies — whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.

I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people’s idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.

If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don’t have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long enough for our country to rotate out of the way.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?