It must be God first, God second, and God third

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.

The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.

Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.

Size zero doesn't make you happy and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.