Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

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.

The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song, ' but it can happen.

The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

Ive always been a health fanatic.