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.

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.

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 dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one.

Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'Customer's friend: 'Jesus.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.