Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.

You have to be near Him to hear Him.

It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

sometimes what you have planned, is nothing like the plan your soul invited you, to this earth for.

Travel is an urge best cultivated from within.

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

Well I've had a happy life.