Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

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.

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

He can smell his cologne, his shampoo, and something else -- he can smell the boy's own scent, something bittersweet.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going.

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.