Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

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.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.