I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.

If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!

The Invisible World reveals to us this Truth within its silence.

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.