What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.

Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.

You have to be near Him to hear Him.

It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

The prisoner's recurrent, sporadic dreams of escape were simply that - spurious vagaries dismissed almost as quickly as they blossomed in Schkirt's feverish mind.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.