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

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.

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.

We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

He was every angel and every devil.

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.