We need to realize that the promises that overflow our Bibles will overflow into our own lives only as we appropriate them through prayer.

Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him.

He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

Contentment is an undervalued grace.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.