The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

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 don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive - even to come alive. Not loneliness.

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.

I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.