Great triumphs can only come out of great trials

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.