Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

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.

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

Sally's head plopped into the shallow water and rolled face up. For a while, the changing shades of pinks and oranges reflected across the surface of her dead eyes.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Started using Google+ while I was living in space.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.