Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

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.

Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger.

When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.