I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

Mercy should be given once to a person and it is priceless. This person then should be very honest and should promise not to commit the same particular mistake again.

...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...

I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don't know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.