Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

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.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.

Faith is courage it is creative while despair is always destructive.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

I take the choice out of exercise. It's not an option.

Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.