Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

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.

Attend to your own fate.

If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.