Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?

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.

Thinking and planning is one side of life

Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose.

They can say I have an opinion about something.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.