Quotes About Author

The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for every desire. You are in competition with no one but yourself.

I am thankful to my physical existence on planet earth, that I completed my literary work from whatever mind I had left, before becoming mindless nonphysical.

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Wine gives one 'ideas, ' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

Over-the-counter drug abuse or addiction was a problem that I observed at Mauna Kea

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.