Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

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 need not flatter any man

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

I am more vintage than I am high fashion.

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

War makes rattling good history.

I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole.

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.