It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.

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.

I could always accept not being the prettiest or the smartestBecause I had the best of friends.A and A they called us.But, Anna, somehow, I failed you. And now I've lost the best part ofMe.

It’s a number.”“It’s not, ” she said. “It’s a chance to wake up new.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

I'm a boring guy - I have a wife and three kids. I'm not like Mr. Controversy.

I think I'll Look back and go, 'That was a really good career move.'

You might be a redneck if you own all the components of soap on a rope except the soap.

With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.