There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

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.

Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Every day is an opportunity to create good memories for yourself and others.

Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.

Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.

Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.

Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

Look - guys are dogs. Women have known this since the beginning of time. Guys don't want to be chased; they chase. So if you're going to catch one, you have to know how to make him chase you.