Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.

So all my friends have kids now... which I think is rude.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!