Prayer is an effort of will.

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.

Moving your body moves energy. You can create or demolish whatever you need with kinetic dynamism.

I don't believe on them…but I am positive they exist.

The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush*

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.