Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

The only way to stop hurting other people is to stop hurting yourself.

The place was silent and - aware.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.

Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.