If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.