I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.

I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.