Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

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.

Love is a relative emotional quality

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

We're not fair weather friends. We've been in places for a long, long time.

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?

I consider all my films experiments.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm me up, it feels right. Righter than anything ever has.

If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.