It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

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.

If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create.

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that's all of us participating.

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

We have to try really hard to not accidentally summon a demon.

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.