Helping Quotations | Page 4

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows, who never weep for the sorrows of others very seldom have any of their own. Great hearts could be made only by great troubles.

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.