The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.

Do not complain, pray for courage to endure the situation.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.