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.

enter the world of things as they are

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right! It's gonna be jiggly and weird.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

I like skiing and surfing with kids. They are the cutest little skiers out there, in their little outfits. I just want to eat 'em up!