This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.

Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.

Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.

Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!

When we get bumped - we spill what we are full of - Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!

Be positive and laugh at everything.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.