"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me."