I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.
The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God. . . It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.
The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.
The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat. , Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit. ]