When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.

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 are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.

God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.