God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

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.

No mere mortal can do what the Son of man did

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Because God loves us, he gives us lyrics to sing when our hearts can't form words.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

We discussed this very important issue yesterday over a beer.