Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

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.

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.

Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone else.

We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.