What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

You know he can’t save you, right? In the real world? That guy, right there.

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.