The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

Those who know you don’t need explanations, those who don’t won't believe you.

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.