We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

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.

I am unique.I have mission.I have a calling.I will fulfill my highest potential and calling.

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.

I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.