Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

Your smile is the gift, all I ever wanted.

A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

All color is no color.

Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.