Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.It means “full of grace”.

Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.

"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.