Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]

Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.