If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.