May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
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.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
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.
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.
I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.
