God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

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.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

You have to do something about your dream every day

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.

A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

You only get one chance of an England debut.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.