Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

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.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Honestly I can truly say, it would be, nice, but I don't feel like I got to get a Grammy or something to feel official. I'm cool but it would be nice Grammy Awards!

I'm dreading being on a ski cross with other skiers who don't know what they're doing.

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.