True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our lives.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.

Practice fear and you will fail. Practice love and success will prevail.

When you are searching, don't loose what you already have.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.