Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.

All that God is, will supply your need.

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.

One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been done that needed to be done, and that was all I knew about it.

Success advances the man's cause, adversity cleans the man's soul.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

As the competition goes further along, you start to see who's rising and who's falling.

I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.