And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. - Nate Saint
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - Lewis
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. - Lewis
Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God. I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen, such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. – Wesley
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God for it is Thine. I seek not a long life but a full one, like You Lord Jesus. - Elliot
He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. – CS. Lewis
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Picasso
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? - Livingstone
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell. - Studd
Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we -- who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not -- can be saved. - Spurgeon
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity - Barclay
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. - Unknown
There are times when our best just isn't enough. Sometimes we need to do what's required. - Winston Churchill