Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.

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.

Life is a one shot deal, it is entirely up to you what you do with it. Me? I intend to make it the best I can, for as long as I can.

A vampire is like a Rose. They are beautiful, yet harmful.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

It takes me a while to come out of myself and get to know people.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.