Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.

I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's new creation, and all that is in between; you cannot get outside of that.

I am what is around me.