How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs.

... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

Every transaction has its process. Until you submit to it, you will always be living below potential.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

The origin of each story is unique.

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.