Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

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.

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality,

If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.

That wasn’t my future I destroyed, ’ she assured herself. ‘I make my own future.

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I'm supposed to be.