The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

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.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

All activism is fake activism.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

The Navy is very old and very wise.

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.