Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

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.

I was 8, 569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.