We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

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.

One doesn't fall into love... one digs a hole for himself to trip... claiming he didn't see it coming

Opportunities come and they are manifested too

I follow the rules until I go against them all.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

New habits can be launched.