Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.

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.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'