There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

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.

The Lord is God. God is Holy.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Small steps add up to complete big journeys.

Trust is like a tear, once it is dropped, it cannot go back.

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Tim Ryan does not look like the 21st century democratic party. And should that matter?

I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

I kind of understand now why people freak out when they see celebrities that they love, because that's how I feel about every single Muppet.