“Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.”

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

I have chosen you!’ Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Get into the habit of saying, ”Speak, Lord,” and life will become a romance.

Trust God, and do the next thing.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

She is scared to love again, because people change their minds. She is scared to love again, because people leave with no answers, and she is sick of thinking it’s because of her.

My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.

Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It’s read and study. And think about what you’re studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask ‘why?’ And know the answers.

My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.