God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

All secrets sound the same in the dark.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.

Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.