The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.

Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.