The grace of God cannot be quarantined to individuals.

Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.

It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.

This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God.

…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.

The great purpose of prayer is not getting things from God but getting God.

It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.

The Bible is gloriously for us, but it is not mainly about us.

In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.

One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.

The hands of the clock are ever in the hands of God. It is arrogant to plan without planning for God.

Then again, I was never any good at plumbing the depths of a woman's heart.

O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Teach us to care and not to care

Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.