If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.
I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
I like my way of doing things better than your way of not doing them.
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.
Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.
You see, my friends. . . you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'
Open your mind, allow your feelings to be expressed, to be pushed out, and your heart will neither break nor burst, but be a free-flowing channel of the life energy in your soul.
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,. . . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.
A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.