“Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.”

I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.

Trust God, and do the next thing.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

The greatest test of a man’s character is his tongue.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.

Don’t read to remember; read to realize.

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.