“I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.”

“Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot”

“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”

“Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!”

“The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.”

“Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.”

“The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.”

“We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.”

“His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.”

“Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?”

“Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.”