Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

I named you once, I think, " he said, and then strode to his house and entered, bearing the bird still on his wrist.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.