The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.