Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

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 main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.