We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

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.

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.

I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.