Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

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.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.