If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.

Fairy godmothers?” said the king dubiously. “We’ll have a time getting that past the court council — and the bishop.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Saved by the grandma" Ranger

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.