The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

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.

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

When I was younger I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.