The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

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 we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.