An act of faith in the biblical tradition is always undertaken in an environment of knowledge and is inseparable from it.

God does not delight in having to always explain what his will is; he enjoys it when we understand

Prayer and speaking with God must be carefully distinguished from superstition in how they work.

I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

Those who will not learn in plenty to keep their place must learn it by their need when they have had their way and the fields spurn their seed. We have failed Thy grace. Lord, I flinch and pray, send Thy necessity. We Who Prayed and Wept, p. 211.

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.