No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play.