Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

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.

I was not so insane as to attempt to bend events to conform to my policies. On the contrary, I bent my policies to accord with the unforeseen shape of the events.

Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

The crazy thing about the entertainment industry now is that you can't do just one thing. If you're focusing in on just one thing you're pretty much doomed.

My meeting you was no coincidence. It's more than that!