Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

True prayer is a lonely business.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.

This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.