There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

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.

There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

When you are your authentic self, you fulfill the possibilities that dwell inside your soul.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.