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.

Money is what you get in exchange with time invested

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.

It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?