Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try.
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.