If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.

in the things of God we must look not at the work which we are able to accomplish, but at the spirit in which it is undertaken, and that he can never be at a loss for words who has believed on the Word.

self-confidence is the worst of teachers—but from the church's most famous writers.

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.

We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.

Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.

I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.