God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

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.

Stories don't end, " he says. "They just turn into new beginnings." (pg. 123)

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rach

I am always locked in my design studio.

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life.