The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

True prayer is a lonely business.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

Change can only take place, if we desire for change.

Perhaps he found it strange being accompanied by a Chinese-Nigerian arms trafficking pirate, but the Irish priest had just followed me silently on board the covert government transport.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

After you have the basics down it's all mental.

We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.