The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

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.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. What other people think of me is not my business.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.