I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.