May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

That's why you're crying? Because you're happy? You're going to be crying for all your married life, then.

Escape is the byword-forwards, backwards, or sideways-into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which a great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

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.

A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.

The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.

I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to America. I don't think I could describe it any more accurately.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.