Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.

Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.

God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

I'd like to say I took the news well.The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.--Percy Jackson

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

I never will give up.

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things

The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.