God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.

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.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Our marriage ended because I couldn’t make him see me or hear me or do anything I wanted or needed. I could only be as selfish and mean as he was to get his attention. And that was ruinous.

We rely only on God in the wilderness.

I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.