It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.

Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

I wasn't some dilettante.

The difficult pastoral art is to encourage people to grow in excellence and to live selflessly, at one and the same time to lose the self and find the self. It is paradoxical, but it is not impossible.

Joel Henderson was once asked how he had managed to write all those books. He replied that he had never written a book. All he did was write one page a day. With his limited energy and restricted imagination, a page at a time was all that he could manage. But when a year was up he had a 365-page book.

Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity.