Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

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.

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

Waffles are just awesome bread.

The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.