If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

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.

Live for the lovers, not the haters!

Your calling is in what you can do with human interference

It's hard to tread lightly when you continue to accumulate.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.