Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

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.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

I never knew as bad as it would be. I never knew it would be this vile, that it would be this bad, that it would be this vicious [with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama].

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.