So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

The Church in England is the Church of England.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

I want to thank the fans so much for their support through the years. Even as undeserving as I was, they were a big part of my being able to move forward and put my life back together. They're the greatest. They're the ones who make the stars. For their support throughout my career and today, I love them and thank them.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back play for her.

Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

I love shopping, especially food shopping.

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.