That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.
Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.
I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.