We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

A true DreamChaser knows how to sacrifice beyond measure and live with the decision.

I never killed anyone with my tuba.

It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.

Failure will not stop you if you are determined to succeed.

A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.