The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.

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.

If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside.

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

I like to be who I am.

Nothing can be 100 percent sustainable, but every effort makes an impact.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.