CHARLES L. ALLEN

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

What a person thinks about determines what he is.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through.

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting medicine when we are sick, or going to the dentist. Somebody needs to tell us that the sunrise is also God's will. There is the time of harvest, the harvest which will provide food and clothes for us, without which life could not be sustained on earth. God ordered the seasons-they are his will. In fact, the good things in life far outweigh the bad. There are more sunrises than cyclones.