Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

True prayer is a lonely business.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

We have life. That's what's beautiful.

We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.

If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.

I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information of God, in case God does not know my version of the facts.

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.

Anything you want to succeed in, you can do.

When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.