The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.

All that God is, will supply your need.

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

I honestly think that a Pavlik fight would be easier than Jones because styles make fights. He's one dimensional, comes in straight lines, I love that.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

I’ve been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it’s possible.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.