If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

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.

To become a better you, don’t dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements.

You've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.

Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.