Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.

The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.

No matter how outlandishly audacious your prayers might sound in your own ears, they are nothing in light of God's willingness and ability to answer.

Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master.

Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.

And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?

Life at times is a bunch of crap, the nice part about crap is that it's biodegradable.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

You can't revise a blank page.

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work.

What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.