Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

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.

When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted, ' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.