The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

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.

Remember that you were born with only love and hope

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

As a person of color, there's no getting around the reality of its responsibility.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

Design the life you want to live.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.