Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

If you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the womanwho once slept here not knowing that someday one of herworst fears would come true

However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.

Everybody has their own problems. No matter how big you think yours are, there is someone else that has bigger problems or different problems.

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

In school I was pretty fast.