We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

When you want to become great, you have to know what to do, I mean you must first determine what you were born to do.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today, or in the world today.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.

It's a god-eat-god world.