Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

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.

Each man follows his own path - his own destiny, if you will. And only he is responsible for the choice.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Every right decision you create opens a wide gate to your destiny.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.