The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

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.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

I want to privilege the moment.

That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a funny construction.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.