When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

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.

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

To be a leader, you have got to lead human beings with affection

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.