However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

Love the wife of your youth. Never abandon her.

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.