“Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.”

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

It’s not what I don’t know that bothers me – it’s what I do know and don’t do!

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

God’s purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.

Failures often become art. And art can never fail.

I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.

It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.