“If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.”

Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to fault finding.

Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, It’s something we make inside ourselves.

God, make me willing to be made willing.

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray. It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.

The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn’t want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.