Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

It doesn't really matter who you used to be, what matters is who you've become.

My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy something for me to consume and discard.

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.