…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.

Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.

It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.

This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God.

The great purpose of prayer is not getting things from God but getting God.

It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.

The grace of God cannot be quarantined to individuals.

The Bible is gloriously for us, but it is not mainly about us.

In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.

One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.

The hands of the clock are ever in the hands of God. It is arrogant to plan without planning for God.

Loving unconditionally, was love so sublime.Lost without you now, I thought we'd have more time.

It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams.

The thing is to get the work done.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.