Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.

Before you dismiss any gift as worthless, look again because it may just contain hidden treasure.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

The trouble with records is that they're too short.

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.