The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

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.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

Some women,” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “get under a man’s skin until digging them out makes you bleed.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.