No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did, and as was the case with all addicts, gratification was the important thing.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.