We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

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.

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 dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you.

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.