Begin to know Him now, and finish never

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

Animal companions come into your life for an infinite number of reasons, each one being in service to you, your current life experience, and moreover, your soul's growth and evolution.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

Go out as far as you can go and start from there

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.