Your capacity to say “No” determines your capacity to say “Yes” to greater things.
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is – a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.
If you don’t make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
There are two ways to be rich – one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.
The one supreme business of life is to find God’s plan for your life and live it.
The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being.
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ.
When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same – that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.