A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

I don't have the body for this, " I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves."Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

You're a monster. You'll go to hell.""Of course I will. Someone needs to take the throne.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating

You know, the murder - the number of murders in our country this year [2016], went up more than they have in 45 years.

I never dress to shock.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.