When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
The aim is not therefore to liberate some ‘essential self’ by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.
God hasn’t given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?
Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live – time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can’t take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.
Let us not fool ourselves – without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.
Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.
Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving.
Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason – on fire.
The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.
The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.