Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'

When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.