Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

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.

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.

Don't look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.