Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.