God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

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.

Why live boring, if you can make things exceptional...

State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty.

I grow old … I grow old …

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

I think success is being exactly who God called us to be and fighting to your death to live that out.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.