It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

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.

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

The brain runs its show incognito.

I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.