Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

Anybody can cut prices but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and crappy food, or do you prefer to have a nice body? It depends on what you want more.

A poem round and perfect as a star.

Stop asking, start doing.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.