This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God.

Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.

It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.

…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.

The great purpose of prayer is not getting things from God but getting God.

It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.

The grace of God cannot be quarantined to individuals.

The Bible is gloriously for us, but it is not mainly about us.

In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.

One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.

The hands of the clock are ever in the hands of God. It is arrogant to plan without planning for God.

Don't compete with other girls, complete goals.

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

The hardest thing on earth is to know the ways of men and still manage to be in good spirits.

Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide.

The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.