We are here for God's designs, not for our own

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.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

Learn to be a radiant human, and then shine on others.

I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.