My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.

God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.

My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink.

He is poor who does not feel content.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

Life is a series of hard and easy runs.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.