he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

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.

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

I'm not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.