There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

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.

Never judge a work of art by its defects

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.

I appreciate the gratitude every day.

Let no one steal your peace.

Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.